ESPN NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski was the victim of a hacking incident over the weekend.
Scammers peddling non-fungible tokens somehow got access to Wojnarowski’s account on X, formerly Twitter, and posted a link purporting to promote NBA Top Shot, an NFT venture on the decline. The post shared with his 6.3 million followers lured fans in by falsely stating that a “free NFT pack is available to all customers.” But, the scammers were just using the company’s name to trick fans.
The link posted was a .org domain instead of .com, which is what the real NBA Top Shot uses. The actual NBA Top Shot account subsequently posted a statement saying “There is NO Free Airdrop happening on NBA Top Shot at this time, Please be careful and always double check links.”