The official OpenAI Newsroom account, gold check and all, suddenly began promoting a crypto token and shared a malicious link to thousands of followers.

OpenAI’s official press account on X appears to have been compromised by the same cryptocurrency scammers who compromised the accounts of company leadership in previous months.

An official OpenAI account on X was taken over to peddle a cryptocurrency scam on Monday evening. On Monday at 6:24PM ET, the @OpenAINewsroom account, which shares news from OpenAI and has nearly 54,000 followers, made a now-deleted post advertising an “$OPENAI” token.

One of OpenAI's official accounts just got hacked. OpenAI Newsroom, "The official newsroom for OpenAI", shared the following scam post on X on Monday. “We’re very happy to announce $OPEANAI [sic]: the gap between Al and blockchain technology,

OpenAI said one of its accounts on X was compromised on Monday, when an unauthorized individual sent out posts soliciting users to click through to a crypto token falsely claiming to be related to the artificial intelligence startup.

OpenAI X account suffered its fourth hack, promoting a fake token claim. The company hasn’t addressed the issue but took down the posts.

OpenAI's account on X was hacked, leading to unauthorized posts about a fake crypto token. The company said it is investigating the incident, which follows previous account takeovers involving its employees and fraudulent posts related to crypto.