ESPN NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski’s X account was hacked for posting NFT scams.

People still using NBA Top Shot were the primary target of a hoax tweet posted to the account of ESPN reporter Adrian Wojnarowski at approximately 6:30 PM ET on Saturday evening. The tweet referred to NBA Top Shot as a “popular” NFT platform, despite current activity levels being a tiny fraction of what they were at their peak, and falsely claimed that “free NFT packs are available to all customers.”

The tweet directed visitors to a fraudulent version of the NBA Top Shot website (linked to a .org address instead of the official site’s .com URL), which attempted to extort assets from people who had given them access to their cryptocurrency wallets. You can. About 30 minutes later, Top Shot’s official account posted, “Currently, free airdrops are not available on NBA Top Shot. “Please be careful and always double-check the links,” the post read.

The post was eventually removed from Wojnarowski’s account after being live for nearly an hour. Because of his reputation for tweeting breaking news, many NBA fans set up notifications for his posts, and clicking on fraudulent links could result in their account information being stolen.

A number of high-profile Twitter/X accounts continue to be compromised. Wojnarowski’s recent NBA news posts were also posted to Threads, but that account was not used for the scam.

But according to the latest NBA Top Shot statistics from tracking site Cryptoslam.io, there were only about 8,100 unique sellers and 5,550 unique buyers for the month of January. This is a decrease from the peak of more than 399,000 buyers in March 2021. People have been using it to get scammed by these kinds of posts.