In today's day and age, there are various reasons why hackers would want to compromise big companies' social media accounts. Selling cryptocurrency has become an increasingly popular get-rich-quick scheme in recent years, and it seems to be the main reason why hackers gained access to the official Pokémon account on X on Aug. For approximately 30 minutes, hackers took over the Pokémon X account in order to promote a memecoin called $POKEMON.