The Sandbox CEO’s Twitter was hacked, used to promote alleged ‘airdrop’ scam
The executive appears to have now recovered his account. Arthur Madrid, co-founder and CEO of metaverse project The Sandbox, was the victim of a Twitter account hack on May 26, according to a post from Madrid that was apparently made after he recovered the account. The attacker allegedly used Madrid’s account to promote a fake “airdrop” phishing scam. In Madrid’s post, he warned Sandbox users that they should “never click on any link that promote Airdrop or URL and look SCAMMY - and not 100% using our proper and unique URL/domain name : //sandbox.game.” My Twitter was hacked today. and now is back. Please never click on any link that promote Airdrop or URL and look SCAMMY - and not 100% using our proper and unique URL/domain name : https://t.co/X3rXN9z8z7 — Arthur Madrid (@arthurmadrid) May 26, 2023 Four hours before Madrid’s post, The Sandbox’s official Twitter account also warned that a scammer had taken control of the account and was promoting “a scam / phishing link for ...