Hackers hacked Twitter account of director OpenAI and committed fraud with airdrop

2023.06.02 01:36

Hackers hacked Twitter account of director OpenAI and committed fraud with airdrop

By Tiffany Smith

Budrigannews.com – A link on the OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati’s Twitter account that promised a free airdrop was condemned by the crypto community on Twitter.

After the Twitter account of Mira Murati, chief technology officer of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI, was apparently hacked to promote a “scam” cryptocurrency airdrop on June 2, users of crypto Twitter were inundated with warnings.

On June 2, the account of Murati tweeted what appeared to be a phishing link promising an airdrop of the alleged ERC-20 token OPENAI, which was named after the company that developed ChatGPT.

On Twitter, Murati has a verified account and has 126,200 followers. The post was up for about an hour, saw 79,600 views, and 83 people retweeted it before it was taken down.

Others were unable to easily warn others that the link was a rip-off because the author of the tweet had restricted who could reply to it.

Users of Twitter speculate that Murati was the target of a SIM-swapping attack.

The sophisticated website in the tweet appears to have directly copied the layout and design of a real project called ChainGPT, with a few minor modifications, most notably its prompt to connect a cryptocurrency wallet.

A security scientist from blockchain security firm Beosin let Cointelegraph know that the site utilizes an accessible crypto wallet depleting pack that “baits guests into marking demands.”

The researcher for Beosin added, “Once the request is signed, the attacker will transfer NFTs and ERC-20 tokens out of the victim’s wallet.”