OpenAI’s news account on X hacked, sends posts on cryptocurrency

OpenAI stated one in every of its accounts on X was compromised on Monday, when an unauthorized particular person despatched out posts soliciting customers to click on via to a crypto token falsely claiming to be associated to the factitious intelligence startup.

The corporate stated it was conscious of the difficulty, and was trying into it. The posts, which got here from the account @OpenAINewsroom, appeared round 7 p.m. New York time and have been nonetheless seen for some customers about an hour later, earlier than being deleted. 

On Monday morning, previous to the press account incident, a member of OpenAI’s safety workers posted an inside memo to staff warning them a few rise in current account takeovers involving OpenAI staff, and sharing a information on the best way to safe their accounts, based on an individual accustomed to the matter who requested to not be recognized discussing non-public data.

This isn’t the primary occasion of a fraudulent crypto-related put up from an account linked to OpenAI. On Sunday, researcher Jason Wei’s account posted an analogous message claiming to announce a token referred to as $OPENAI. And in June, OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki’s account was hijacked. Chief Expertise Officer Mira Murati’s account was briefly taken over as nicely in June 2023.