WIZ / WIZZLE tokens (Wiz Khalifa account compromise)
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On November 3, 2024, rapper Wiz Khalifa's X (Twitter) account, with roughly 35.7 million followers, posted promotion of a Solana-based memecoin called WIZ, launched on pump.fun, falsely claiming Khalifa was 'working with my team' on the token. The token spiked to a reported $3.4 million valuation within 15 minutes and collapsed to under $28,000 within an hour, a pattern consistent with a pump-and-dump. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT later tied the incident to a broader pattern of hacked celebrity and brand social-media accounts used to launch scam tokens, estimating combined losses across multiple incidents at over $3.5 million, and named a former professional Fortnite player known online as 'Serpent' as a suspect. No corroborating reporting was found for a second token called 'WIZZLE', and the requester's stated incident date of November 3, 2026 does not match contemporaneous reporting, which places the hack in 2024.
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Timeline(5 events)
October 2024
Truth Terminal developer Andy Ayrey's X account is compromised and allegedly used to promote fraudulent memecoins, reportedly netting about $1.5 million in profit for the attackers.
Cointelegraph3 November 2024
Wiz Khalifa's X account, with about 35.7 million followers, is compromised and used to promote the WIZ memecoin on pump.fun; ZachXBT publicly warns followers not to buy the token, attributing the hack to the same actor behind the Ayrey compromise.
CointelegraphNovember 2024
ZachXBT publishes the first part of an investigation linking a pattern of hacked celebrity/brand accounts, including Wiz Khalifa's, to a suspected operator.
Cointelegraph27 November 2024
ZachXBT publishes a follow-up X thread naming 'Serpent' (SerpentAU), a former professional Fortnite player, as the alleged operator behind the pattern of memecoin scams tied to hacked accounts, estimating combined losses at over $3.5 million.
Cointelegraph28 November 2024
Cointelegraph reports on ZachXBT's findings; 'Serpent' reportedly deletes posts from a newer X account following publication.
CointelegraphDecision Log
- slot 469189463 · hash HZNdoa3S1ipFLkYN4SZf8fj3VmEJu6bPpX1zgMhvpb9p
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 decision). 2 of 7 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-code-investigator
generated: 11/14/2026, 4:11:47 AM
last updated: 11/14/2026, 4:11:47 AM
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