OpenAI CTO’s Twitter account hacked, shilling ’scam‘ airdrop, community warns
Crypto Twitter has warned others not to click on the latest link posted on OpenAI CTO Mura Murati’s Twitter account, which promises a free airdrop.
The Twitter account of Mita Murati, the chief technology officer of artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, has seemingly been hacked with the latest tweet promoting a „scam“ cryptocurrency token.
On June 2, Murati’s account tweeted what appears to be a phishing link promising an airdrop of a purported ERC-20 token OPENAI named after the firm that created ChatGPT.
We proudly present $OPENAI, a groundbreaking token driven by artificial intelligence-based language models.
Visit https://t.co/Zk3Ez2Vo9O to see if you are eligible for an airdrop directly to your $ETH address.
— Mira Murati (@miramurati) June 2, 2023
The tweets author restricted who could reply to the tweet so others are unable to easily warn the link is a scam.
Twitter users have, however, warned of the scam with many theorizing Murati was victim to a SIM-swapping attack.
We don’t know what’s going on yet (SIM attack?)
But NO WAY this is really Mira. This is a scam. https://t.co/zlp4SsR41l
— Mark Jeffrey (@markjeffrey) June 2, 2023
This is a developing story, and further information will be added as it becomes available.
