Data leak

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2024-09-23 [vendor] OpenAI Twitter account
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Incident Details

The Twitter account belonging to OpenAI’s news account was compromised and used to “announce” a scam website purporting to announce the $OPENAI token. “All OpenAI users are eligible to claim a piece of $OPENAI’s initial supply. Holding $OPENAI will grant access to all of our future beta programs,” the scam tweets claimed. A link in the tweets directed users to a malicious website that invited users to connect their wallets to claim tokens.This latest hack is only the latest in a slew of Twitter account compromises “announcing” a scam token. Over a year, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati had her account hacked to promote an “$OPENAI” token. Three months ago, accounts belonging to chief scientist Jakub Pachocki and researcher Jason Wei were hacked and used to post the same scam as today.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Smart contract exploit / hack
Vendor / Product
OpenAI Twitter account

Timeline

  1. 2024-09-23 Breach occurred
  2. 2024-09-23 Publicly disclosed