ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski Hacked on Social Media by NFT Scammers

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.”

Wojnarowski’s post was taken down after about an hour, according to The Verge. The veteran NBA reporter never made a post clarifying that he was hacked, although many observers concluded that’s what happened.