ESPN NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski’s X account hacked to publish an NFT rip-off

Individuals who nonetheless use NBA High Shot had been the first targets of a rip-off tweet posted to ESPN reporter Adrian Wojnarowski’s account on X Saturday night at about 6:30PM ET. The tweet referred to NBA High Shot as a “standard” NFT platform, even though present exercise ranges are a tiny fraction of what we noticed throughout its peak, and falsely claimed a “free NFT pack is obtainable to all clients.”

The tweet linked guests to a rip-off model of the NBA High Shot web site (the hyperlink went to a .org handle as a substitute of the official web site’s .com URL) that would try to empty property from individuals who give it entry to their crypto wallets. A few half hour later, the official High Shot account posted, saying, “There’s NO Free Airdrop taking place on NBA High Shot presently, Please watch out and at all times double verify hyperlinks.”

The publish was ultimately pulled from Wojnarowski’s account after being stay for practically an hour. Due to his repute for breaking information tweets, many NBA followers have alerts turned on for his posts and will have had account data stolen in the event that they clicked the fraudulent hyperlink.

A variety of high-profile Twitter / X accounts proceed to get compromised. Wojnarowski’s latest NBA information posts have additionally been syndicated on Threads, nonetheless that account was not used for the rip-off.

Nonetheless, the newest NBA High Shot stats from monitoring web site Cryptoslam.io solely present about 8,100 distinctive sellers and 5,550 distinctive consumers for the month of January, down from the height of greater than 399,000 consumers in March 2021, so it’s uncertain there are very many individuals left utilizing it to get scammed by this type of publish.