On June 2, the Twitter account of Mira Murati, OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer, was apparently hacked. The attacker used her Twitter account to advertise a fraudulent cryptocurrency airdrop.
Murati discovered her account being used to promote a bogus cryptocurrency airdrop. The article, which claimed to be offering an ERC-20 coin called OPENAI, led to a phishing URL. Murati, a well-known person in the field of artificial intelligence, has 126,200 Twitter followers, all of whom could fall prey to the fraud. The misleading post was active for almost an hour, receiving 79,600 views and 83 retweets before being removed. Because the tweet’s author had restricted reply access, users were unable to notify others about the bogus link.