The Sandbox CEO’s Twitter was hacked to support an alleged airdrop scam.
Sandbox CEO Arthur Madrid’s Twitter account was hacked to be used as a fraud. After the incident was discovered, the CEO got his account back.
Sandbox CEO Takes Back Hacked Twitter Account
Arthur Madrid, co-founder and CEO of The Sandbox, posted a post after recovering the account. Madrid was the victim of a Twitter account hack on May 26. The attacker allegedly used Madrid’s account to support a bogus “airdrop” phishing scam.
In the Madrid post, Sandbox warned users that they should never click on any link promoting the airdrop or URL that appears to be a scam.
https://twitter.com/arthurmadrid/status/1662161066166562818
Four hours before Madrid’s post, The Sandbox’s official Twitter account also warned that a scammer had taken control of the account and promoted “a scam/phishing link for a fake SAND token.”
https://twitter.com/TheSandboxGame/status/1662106263294185472
The tweet included a screenshot of the alleged scam post, which advertised a SAND token airdrop and encouraged users to qualify, redirecting users to a website with a different URL than the official one.
The Sandbox team stated that after this event took place, work began to close the site.
