Metallica’s social media accounts reportedly hacked by crypto scammers

Metallica‘s social media accounts have apparently been hacked by crypto scammers.

Followers noticed the band tweeting a few Solana-based cryptocurrency beneath the ticker ‘METAL’ yesterday (June 26).

Although the posts have now been deleted, screenshots (through Cointelegraph) present the tweets studying as follows: “Prepare for the takeover. Faucet into $METAL, a dynamic new token on the Solana blockchain poised to revolutionize the way you expertise occasions and store on-line. In collaboration with @Ticketmaster.”

The scammer then posted particulars a few scheme the place customers may change their METAL tokens for Metallica gig tickets and unique merch, together with an Xbox recreation console supposedly signed by Metallica themselves.

The posts have since been taken down; while Metallica haven't made any official assertion, they did retweet cryptocurrenty switch firm MoonPay’s assertion, with their president Keith Grossman writing: “MoonPay does NOT assist METAL.”

In line with Dexscreener information, the token reached a peak of $3.37million (£2.6million) round 20 minutes after it was launched; it dropped right down to $90k (£71k) roughly three hours later.

Frontman James Hetfield not too long ago commented on whether or not the band will ever write one other tune in theri ‘Unforgiven’ collection.

In 1991, the metallic icons launched ‘The Unforgiven’ because the second single from their acclaimed self-titled album. Six years later, ‘The Unforgiven II’ arrived as a part of the ‘Reload’ album. In 2008, the band dropped the final entry within the ‘Unforgiven’ saga to this point with ‘The Unforgiven III’ as a part of ‘Demise Magnetic’.

When requested if the ‘Unforgiven’ saga is full on The Metallica Report podcast, Hetfield replied: “I’m not useless! I’m not useless but, so it’s not completed.”

NME additionally spoke with the band final 12 months, the place drummer Lars Ulrich opened up concerning the impression of Stranger Issues on their fanbase. The present used ‘Grasp of Puppets’ throughout a key scene within the present’s season 4 finale.

“We see a number of 13 to 14-year-olds coming for the primary time,” stated Ulrich. “There’s at all times been a coming-of-age component to our reveals, and simply take a look at the Stranger Issues phenomena of final summer season. “That got here out of nowhere and rapidly launched Metallica to a complete different set of youthful folks.”