One of OpenAI’s social accounts hacked by crypto scammers

One of the official X accounts belonging to ChatGPT’s parent company, OpenAI, was hacked by crypto scammers last night.

The hackers took over the company’s @OpenAINewsroom account around 7pm ET (Sep, 23). Usually, the corporate account is used to share updates and news surrounding the latest developments at the pioneering AI research firm. However, on Monday evening the account began to post about a so-called “$OPENAI” token to its 54,000 followers.

The post read: “We’re very happy to announce $OPEANAI: the token bridging the gap between Al and blockchain technology.

“All OpenAI users are eligible to claim a piece of $OPENAI’s initial supply. Holding $OPENAI will grant access to all of our future beta programs.”

The since-deleted tweet contained a link leading to a counterfeit OpenAI website.

The OpenAI Newsroom X account appears to be hacked.

The first line of the announcement even misspells the token handle ($OPEANAI vs $OPENAI).

Be careful out there… pic.twitter.com/3M7cFuCGn0

— TylerD