Hack history / 2026 / Hack or exploit
Microsoft’s official X account
Hack or exploit on Oct 2, 2026 · The X account was hacked
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
undisclosed
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
not ranked
collapses, frauds and later news are not ranked
What happened
Microsoft’s official X account was accessed without authorization for about 30 minutes. 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.
Details
- Date
- Oct 2, 2026
- Kind
- Hack or exploit
- Method
- The X account was hacked
- How in
- Other
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- not stated
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Microsoft’s official X account hack, Oct 2, 2026: undisclosed lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht73be6d5c0a/ (data as of 2026-11-01).