Keith Gill's verified X account was apparently hacked on May 11, with bad actors using the Roaring Kitty profile to launch and dump a Solana meme coin. According to reports from Lookonchain, two posts appeared on Gill's verified X account at around 21:13 UTC on May 11, ending a 16-month silence. The first shared a Pump.fun contract address for a Solana meme coin called Red Kitten Crew, ticker RKC, while the second included a cartoon clip with the phrase 'red bandit crew 4 life.' Both posts were deleted within an hour.
On-chain analyst StarPlatinum was among the first to flag the incident, posting that the account had been hacked and that over 80 wallets extracted $2.86 million during the brief rally. As reported by Lookonchain, RKC hit a market cap of $11 to $12 million within 20 minutes of the posts going live before collapsing sharply when the posts were removed. The developer spent $1,950 across 10 wallets to acquire 395.18 million RKC tokens, equal to 39.52% of the total supply, then sold the entire position for 5,071 SOL worth approximately $495,000. The total profit from the operation reached approximately $611,000 after accounting for both token sales and creator fee collections.
According to Lookonchain analysis, the developer also collected an additional 1,209 SOL, roughly $118,000, in Pump.fun creator fees. The total profit from the operation reached approximately $611,000 after accounting for both token sales and creator fee collections. The developer's wallets were tracked by blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain, which documented the complete transaction flow from acquisition to sale.
The incident follows a well-established pattern on Solana, with similar hijacking incidents occurring in early 2025 when Pump.fun's own X account was briefly compromised to promote a fake governance token, and in December 2024 when Animoca co-founder Yat Siu's X account was compromised to shill a Solana meme coin. Unverified community speculation has pointed to Kevin Gill, Keith's brother, as a possible figure connected to the incident, after a livestream clip surfaced showing someone resembling him celebrating the launch. Neither Keith Gill, Kevin Gill, nor their representatives have publicly addressed the allegations, and no confirmed evidence has been presented.
According to reports, GameStop shares rose as much as 13% during the RKC episode before erasing all gains. The rapid market movement and subsequent collapse demonstrate the significant impact of celebrity account hijacking on cryptocurrency markets, particularly when combined with meme coin promotional strategies. Gill has never publicly promoted a meme coin and has not issued any statement on the account activity at the time of writing.
