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.

Hackers hijacked Microsoft’s official X account to promote a $Clippy crypto token, exposing more than 13 million followers to ...

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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The EvilTokens platform that compromised more than 12,000 Microsoft accounts at over 10,000 organizations has been disrupted in an effort led by Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU).

Crypto scammers hijacked Microsoft's X account for 30 minutes to promote a fake $Clippy token. Here's how the attack unfolded ...