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OpenAI ’s prescribed insistence account on X appear to have been compromised by the same cryptocurrency scammers who compromised the business relationship of company leadership in former months .
Late Monday afternoon , OpenAI Newsroom , an chronicle OpenAI recently created to spotlight product- and policy - related announcements , posted about a supposedly Modern OpenAI - post blockchain token , “ $ OPENAI . ”
“ We ’re very well-chosen to annunciate $ OPEANAI [ sic ] : the gap between Al and blockchain engineering science , ” the post translate . “ All OpenAI drug user are eligible to claim a piece of $ OPENAI ’s initial supply . hold $ OPENAI will grant access to all of our succeeding genus Beta program . ”
Of course , $ OPENAI does n’t survive — and the postal service on ex link to a phishing website design to mimic the legitimate OpenAI website ( minus the prominently incorrect URL “ token-openai.com ” ) . A spectacular “ CLAIM $ OPENAI ” clitoris on the simulated site encourage unsuspecting users to connect their cryptocurrency wallets , likely in an attempt to slip those users ’ login credential .
As of publication time , both the Emily Price Post and site were still up — as was a repost and a response promising “ further selective information ” about the token “ [ to ] come by and by in the hebdomad . ” gossip on the malicious X post were handicapped , making the hack less obvious than it might be otherwise .
We ’ve reached out to OpenAI and X for comment and will update this clause if we try back .
It ’s not the first time accounts associate with OpenAI have been compromised as a part of phishing campaigns .
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In June 2023 , OpenAI CTO Mira Murati ’s account post a interchangeable message promoting the fictitious $ OPENAI crypto token . And just three months ago , the accounts of OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki and OpenAI researcher Jason Wei were hack and used to publish cozenage Post identical to the post on the OpenAI Newsroom account today .
Coinspeaker , reportingon the nag of Murati ’s account last June , said that the scammers used a “ crypto drainer ” tool that would funnel all the NFTs and tokens that victims had in their pocketbook to the scammer ’ billfold once they signed into the fake OpenAI site .
Other high - visibility X accountsbelongingto technical school companies and celebrities have been hacked in late eld to promote crypto cozenage . In perhaps the mostinfamousexample , in 2020 , hackers targeted accounts belong to Apple , Elon Musk , and Joe Biden to post the savoir-faire of a bitcoin wallet with the title that the amount of any payment made to the savoir-faire would be doubled and send back .
Americans lost $ 5.6 billion to cryptocurrency scam in 2023 , a 45 % increment from 2022,accordingto the FBI . And 2024 is on lead to be as unsound — or worse . More than 50,000 cozenage were reported through the first half of this year , be consumer close to $ 2.5 billion , perthe Federal Trade Commission .
