OpenAI CTO’s Twitter account hacked to promote cryptocurrency scam

The Twitter account of OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer appears to have been hacked on Thursday evening in order to promote a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme.

Mira Murati, who has worked at OpenAI for over five years, lost control of her Twitter account around 6.03 p.m. Pacific Time (as per timestamps on the tweets), reports VentureBeat.

Later, her account started promoting a new cryptocurrency called “$OPENAI” that was allegedly “driven by artificial intelligence-based language models”.

In the unauthorised tweets, Murati’s followers were encouraged to send money to an Ethereum digital wallet address in order to receive free “airdropped” coins.