The Sandbox CEO’s Twitter was hacked, used to promote alleged ‘airdrop’ scam

Arthur Madrid, the co-founder, and CEO of The Sandbox, a metaverse project, experienced a Twitter account breach on May 26. Madrid later posted a message indicating that he had regained control of the account. The hacker had purportedly used Madrid's account to promote a deceptive "airdrop" phishing scam.



In his post, Madrid cautioned Sandbox users against clicking on any suspicious links promoting fake airdrops or URLs that do not match the official domain name (http://sandbox.game). The official Twitter account of The Sandbox had also issued a warning four hours prior, notifying users that a scammer had hijacked the account and was disseminating a phishing link for a counterfeit SAND token airdrop.



The warning post included a screenshot of the fraudulent promotion, which advertised the SAND token airdrop and urged users to


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