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- 1 Hackers using celebratory Twitter accounts to propagate fake narratives are becoming common.
- 2 CTO Mira Murati joined chatbot ChatGPT creator OpenAI in 2018.
OpenAI chief technology officer’s Twitter account reportedly fell prey to an unwanted alleged hack. The crypto community members took to the social media platform and warned about the instance. The warnings noted the potential hack of the AI company executive, which was promoting a “scam” crypto scheme.
According to crypto Twitter, the account of OpenAI CTO Mira Murati was hacked on Friday, June 2, and it promoted a cryptocurrency airdrop which was alleged to be a scam. The tweet posted from the account was said to have a phishing link that boasted of an airdrop of OPENAI token, an alleged ERC-20 token to be named after and presented as created by the ChatGPT creator firm.
Given the significant following of the executive on Twitter with over 126K followers, verified accounts, and her designation, the post got shared rapidly. The post was showcased over the account for an hour, and within the short span, it had over 79K views. Before the post got deleted, the post retweeted about 83 times.
Among the Twitter users, those who got the initial hint that the project was a potential scam unable to inform others about the same due to blocked options for replying to the tweet. Until now, there is no clarification on how the incident occurred and the reason behind the hack. Also, no victim or loss is reported until the time of writing. However, several users think of the Sim-swapping attack as the reason to let the account be compromised.
OpenAI Executive Is Not the First
Earlier TheCoinRepublic reported the hack of the Twitter account of the crypto exchange KuCoin. The instance occurred on April 24 when the social media account was compromised.
Within approximately 45 minutes of remaining hacked, several fake activities were reportedly posted from the account. It led several crypto users to trust it to be true and lose their funds in the contingency.
Though the company had assured the users to get compensated for their losses, the overall reported loss of the crypto exchange users was over 22K USD. Despite the short-term hack, the mishap’s information surfaced all over after the account recovered.
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