Security Incident
Microsoft’s official X account The X account was hacked
Microsoft’s official X account was accessed without authorization for about 30 minutes.
- Reported loss
- 0
- Attack category
- The X account was hacked
Incident Overview
Attackers changed the profile picture to Clippy, followed and reposted an impersonator account, and promoted an unauthorized Clippy meme coin to roughly 13 million followers; a later “apology” post was also unauthorized and deleted. Microsoft told The Verge and others that the account was secured, the posts removed, and that it never authorized any token tied to Clippy or $MSFT.
Sources & References
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