Jaylen Brown's Twitter spams bizarre content after apparently being hacked
On Tuesday, Jaylen Brown's X (formerly Twitter) account began posting strange tweets. Earlier in the week, however, Brown retweeted a post from Kyrie Irving, before retweeting another about his recently released song with A$AP Ferg.
However, this afternoon, Brown's X account made several odd replies to fans, leading many to believe he had been hacked. After an initial post raised suspicions that the reigning Finals MVP was hacked, Brown assured his followers that he wasn't hacked.
On Tuesday morning, a tweet from the account said that Brown planned to do a live Spaces to clear up any questions. The account then responded to a fan who called out the account for being hacked by taking aim at Brown's teammate Jayson Tatum.
About an hour later, instead of starting a Spaces, Brown's account posted a series of crypto wallets that appeared to be part of a scam.
The account then promoted a cryptocurrency called "THC" in a series of posts, many of which disappeared shortly after hitting the social media platform.
While many of the posts have since been deleted, you can see some screenshots of the posts in question below.
Jaylen Brown's account continues the series of suspicious posts
During publication, Jaylen Brown's account continued to make more and more suspicious posts on the NBA champ's X account. After promoting the "$THC" cryptocurrency, the account pivoted and began to promote another cryptocurrency, "$CHUB."
The account promoted the cryptocurrency in one post, before then posting a series of cryptocurrency addresses tied to the "$CHUB" coin. In addition, the account also took aim at Brown's fans, saying that it wasn't going to be following any quote-unquote "broke" followers back who couldn't buy the cryptocurrency.
Check out some more suspicious posts from the account below that surfaced during publication:
Editor's Note: At the time of publication, the below posts were all still up on Jaylen Brown's account, however, they may be deleted. As such, screenshots are included below.
Jaylen Brown isn't the only high-profile athlete who appears to have been hacked on social media this week. Over the weekend, UFC star Dustin Poirier also appeared to make a series of suspicious posts, in part promoting a cryptocurrency.
Poirier has since regained access to his account and the suspicious posts in question have been removed.
Given the pair of athletes who were hacked this week, it appears as though hackers are attempting to use athletes' social media accounts to do rug-pull cryptocurrency scams.