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The crypto community on Twitter warned others not to click on a link posted on OpenAI CTO Mura Murati’s Twitter account, which promised a free airdrop.
Crypto Twitter has been flooded with warnings from users, after the Twitter account of Mita Murati, the chief technology officer of artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, was seemingly hacked — promoting a “scam” cryptocurrency airdrop.
On June 2, Murati’s account tweeted what appeared to be a phishing link promising an airdrop of a purported ERC-20 token OPENAI named after the firm that created ChatGPT.
Murati has 126,200 followers on Twitter and has a verified account on the platform. The post was live for about an hour and viewed 79,600 times and retweeted 83 times before it was deleted.
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The tweet’s author had restricted who could reply to the tweet so others were unable to easily warn the link was a scam.
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Some Twitter users theorize that Murati was a victim of 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.
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