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Category: CRYPTO NEWS
The post Sam Altman OpenAI X Account Breached In Crypto Scam Attack appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Sam Altman’s OpenAI X account was compromised on Monday in an attempt to conduct cryptocurrency fraud. Hacker impersonated OpenAI and sent out a message advertising a new fake token named $OPENAI, and lured the audience into visiting a phishing page to input their credentials for their crypto wallets. OpenAI X Account Hacked in Cryptocurrency Scam According to OpenAI, the hack affected its newsroom on X (previously Twitter), the account that is used to publish company-related information. The fake tweet claimed that a new blockchain token called “$OPENAI” had been launched, which is not true and has no connection with OpenAI. The message stated that all OpenAI users would be able to get a share of the token to provide early access to the upcoming beta versions. This hack is the latest in a series of similar incidents that has targeted OpenAI accounts on X. In the last few months, even OpenAI top employees such as Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki or researcher Jason Wei have also had their accounts hacked and used to promote similar cryptocurrency scams. Details of the Phishing Scam The fraudulent post appeared on the @OpenAINewsroom account around 6:24 PM ET. It had several mistakes, among which the improper name of Sam Altman’s OpenAI was used: $OPEANAI, and the link led to the phishing site which imitated the OpenAI website. The site had a button that read “CLAIM $OPENAI” which was intended to trick users into linking their cryptocurrency accounts. The post had no comment section, which made it more difficult to recognize the fraud for the users. As much as the post was deleted it remained visible for almost an hour and could have been seen by many followers. Such scams as this one commonly attempt to collect user credentials and, consequently, give the attackers access to…
2024-09-24T02:28:14+00:00