The artist formerly known as Kanye West’s Instagram has been hacked following the launch of the YZY meme coin. Or at least, that’s what’s being claimed in an update shared to Ye’s official X account.
“My Instagram has been hacked and it’s following a fake coin,” a post shared to Ye’s X early Tuesday morning reads.
The post also directs followers to the YZY MNY handle, which is verified on the once-great platform formerly known as Twitter “because it’s an official organization.” Per X's terms, profiles with a gold checkmark are intended to signify “an official organization account through Verified Organizations.”
As of this writing, Ye’s official IG follows just two accounts including one belonging to his wife, Bianca Censori, and a YZY TKN page with just under 800 followers. The latter, presumably, is the “fake coin” referenced in Ye’s X update on Tuesday.
Additional details on the alleged hack weren’t immediately clear. Complex has reached out to reps for Ye for comment. This story may be updated.
As previously reported, YZY MNY has been billed as “a concept for a new financial system, built on crypto rails.” A site associated with the launch also mentions a Ye Pay crypto payments processor and the YZY Card “debit instrument.” Notably, the launch came months after Ye said he was “not doing a coin,” arguing that coins “prey on the fans with hype.” He also made similarly distanced remarks about NFTs back in 2022.
The bulk of Ye-related news coverage this year has focused on a slew of Nazism-promoting statements and related controversies. In July, Dave Blunts, who’s collaborated extensively with the In Whose Name? documentary subject in recent months, claimed in a conversation with DJ Vlad that Ye is “not on that anymore.”
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