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

Individuals who nonetheless use NBA Prime 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 Prime Shot as a “fashionable” NFT platform, even if present exercise ranges are a tiny fraction of what we noticed throughout its peak, and falsely claimed a “free NFT pack is accessible to all clients.”

The tweet linked guests to a rip-off model of the NBA Prime Shot web site (the hyperlink went to a .org deal with 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 couple of half hour later, the official Prime Shot account posted, saying, “There may be NO Free Airdrop taking place on NBA Prime Shot right now, Please watch out and at all times double verify hyperlinks.”

The submit was finally pulled from Wojnarowski’s account after being reside for practically an hour. Due to his popularity 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.

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

Nonetheless, the most recent NBA Prime 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 submit.