Crypto scammers hijack Microsoft’s official X account to push a fake Clippy token
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Microsoft’s official X account was used to promote a fake Clippy token on Oct. 1. The account, which has more than 13 million followers, was later secured and the unauthorized posts were removed. The incident put a corporate social account with a large audience at the center of a token promotion.
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People who follow Microsoft’s X account were the ones most directly exposed, because the account was used to push a fake Clippy token to its more than 13 million followers. Anyone monitoring major corporate social accounts would notice that a large, verified-style audience was reached by a token promotion tied to Microsoft’s account.
Before the compromise was cleaned up, the account was posting material it was not supposed to post; afterward, the unauthorized posts were removed and the account was secured. What did not change is that the event still shows a corporate social account can be used to distribute a token promotion to a large audience for a period of time. (per cryptobriefing.com)
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