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.

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,

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.

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.