OpenAI CTO’s Twitter account hacked, shilling ‘scam’ airdrop, community warns

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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.

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.

This is a developing story, and further information will be added as it becomes available.