Article 6JW9P The latest ‘Woj bomb’ was just a scam NFT tweet from a hacked account

The latest ‘Woj bomb’ was just a scam NFT tweet from a hacked account

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Richard Lawler
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woj_hackeda.0.jpg The fake NBA Top Shot tweet. | Image: X / @wojespn

People who still use NBA Top Shot were the primary targets of a scam tweet posted to ESPN reporter Adrian Wojnarowski's account on X Saturday evening at about 6:30PM ET. The tweet referred to NBA Top Shot as a popular" NFT platform, despite the fact that current activity levels are a tiny fraction of what we saw during its peak, and falsely claimed a free NFT pack is available to all customers."

The tweet linked visitors to a scam version of the NBA Top Shot website (the link went to a .org address instead of the official site's .com URL) that could attempt to drain assets from people who give it access to their crypto wallets. About a half hour later, the official Top Shot account posted, saying, There is NO Free Airdrop happening...

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