Clippy took on a second life online as both a meme and a nostalgia icon.

Microsoft's X account was used to promote a meme coin scam, and possibly even to distribute malware.

Microsoft confirmed that its official X account was hacked and used to amplify a Clippy-themed cryptocurrency account.

The @Microsoft account reposted a tweet from a Clippy crypto account to its 13 million followers.

On Thursday, unknown attackers hijacked the official Microsoft account on X, which has over 13 million followers, in what appeared to be a pump-and-dump scheme promoting a crypto token.

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