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"Kylian Mbappé Lottin (born 20 December 1998) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club Real Madrid and captains the France national team. Widely regarded as one of the best players in the world, he is known for his dribbling, finishing and speed."

"French football star Kylian Mbappe's X account was hacked, and a token called MBAPPE was posted. The tweet has since been deleted. The MBAPPE token's market value skyrocketed to tens of millions of dollars within minutes, only to quickly plummet to zero."

"PANews News on August 29, the X account of French football star Kylian Mbappe was hacked and released tokens MBAPPE, which has now been deleted. The market value of MBAPPE tokens soared to tens of millions of dollars in a few minutes, and then quickly returned to zero. After a user bought the tokens with 2 SOL (approximately US$286), it sold them at a high point and made about 1,398 SOL (approximately US$200,000)."

"According to this graph, the person who hacked Mbappe’s account made nearly $100k in an hour from a Crypto scam…"

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Kylian Mbappe is a professional French footballer who is team captain of the France national team and plays as a forward for Real Madrid in La Liga, the top men's professional football division of the Spanish football league system. While he may be an expert at football/soccer, he's definitely not an expert at securing his Twitter account, which was able to be breached on August 28th, 2024. During the breach, the attacker made references to players, leagues, and political stances about freeing Palestine. The attacker is believed to have profited between $100k and $200k from a token they launched via the breached Twitter called MBAPPE, which subsequently dropped to 0.

法国足球明星Kylian Mbappe的X账号被黑并推广MBAPPE代币，目前该推文已删除 - PANews (Sep 25)
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