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Bad news from the Cincinnati Bengals’ corner of the NFL, involving Joe Burrow. No, he’s not hurt again, but there is some new nuisance in his life that he must deal with. Joe Shiesty’s X account has been hacked and some crypto bros are behind it. But Joey B isn’t the only one.

It has happened to Patrick Mahomes in the past and now it seems like the hackers have found a new account to misuse and manipulate people. An X account by the name of Bengalorian pointed out the hack on Burrow’s account. It has to do with a cryptocurrency company called Solana and it directs people to go on a link and possibly shill for Solana.

The link provided in the image helps users with creating their own cryptocurrency and only God knows how many there are at this point. But not only Burrow, but NBC journalists are also prone to hacking as Peter King of the broadcasting network suffered the same fate. An account by the name of Blake Allen Murphy dictates what happened with King’s X account.

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The keyword in the whole scam here is “Solana,” which yet again popped up in King’s profile and gives a different ticker this time. The common theme here is that the ticker is always related to the famous person whose account got hacked. For Burrow, it was “$JOEY” and for the journalist, it was “$KING.”

It is advised for anyone not to visit those links. What happened to Joe Burrow and Peter King was unfortunate, but not as unfortunate as Patrick Mahomes’ ordeal.

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Patrick Mahomes gets caught ahead of the Raiders AFC- West title matchup

Maxx Crosby and Patrick Mahomes have an infamous rivalry. The Raiders DE taunts and bullies Mahomes on the field and is after his life (not literally). The Raiders have a notorious fanbase and one of them decided to hack Mahomes’ charity account that goes by the name of 15 and the Mahomies.

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USA Today via Reuters

The 3x Super Bowl winner’s charity account was hacked, and the hacker posted NSFW 18+ pictures on the account, maybe to disgruntle and distract the QB ahead of the upcoming game. The accused is suspected to be a Raiders fan and posted pictures of luxury vehicles on the same handle. The location of the hacker was said to be coming from Las Vegas.

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One thing is for sure, these players need to have a better social media team that knows about cybersecurity, or they need to use randomly generated alphanumeric passwords to safeguard their accounts to prevent themselves from getting hacked.

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