2 November 2024
Million Of NFTs Stolen From World’s Largest NFT Marketplace OpenSea
The world’s leading NFT marketplace, OpenSea, has been hit by a phishing attack. As per the reports, 32 users had lost their valuable NFTs worth $1.7 million.
The CEO and Co-founder of OpenSea, Devin Finzer, has acknowledged the phishing attack. He clarified that rumors of a $200 million hack are false, and the hacker has $1.7 million of ETH in his wallet after selling some of the stolen NFTs.
Finzer has asked users affected by the hack to direct message him on Twitter.
OpenSea is yet to find the exact reason for the cyber attack while Peckshield, the Blockchain investigator, said that he suspects a possible leak of user information (including email ids) that fueled the phishing attack.
OpenSea had tweeted "We are actively investigating rumors of an exploit associated with OpenSea related smart contracts. This appears to be a phishing attack originating outside of OpenSea's website."
According to the recent tweet of OpenSea, 17 users were impacted instead of the previously stated 32.
The hack took place after OpenSea announced a new smart contract upgrade with a one-week deadline to delist inactive NFTs on the platform. The new upgrade required OpenSea users to transfer their listed NFTs from the ETH Blockchain to a new smart contract.
Soon after the upgrade, reports started to emerge about an ongoing attack that targets the soon-to-be-delisted NFTs.
To which OpenSea CEO posted, "We don't believe it's connected to the OpenSea website. It appears 32 users so far have signed a malicious payload from an attacker, and some of their NFTs were stolen."
The world’s leading NFT marketplace, OpenSea, has been hit by a phishing attack. As per the reports, 32 users had lost their valuable NFTs worth $1.7 million.
The CEO and Co-founder of OpenSea, Devin Finzer, has acknowledged the phishing attack. He clarified that rumors of a $200 million hack are false, and the hacker has $1.7 million of ETH in his wallet after selling some of the stolen NFTs.
Finzer has asked users affected by the hack to direct message him on Twitter.
OpenSea is yet to find the exact reason for the cyber attack while Peckshield, the Blockchain investigator, said that he suspects a possible leak of user information (including email ids) that fueled the phishing attack.
OpenSea had tweeted "We are actively investigating rumors of an exploit associated with OpenSea related smart contracts. This appears to be a phishing attack originating outside of OpenSea's website."
According to the recent tweet of OpenSea, 17 users were impacted instead of the previously stated 32.
The hack took place after OpenSea announced a new smart contract upgrade with a one-week deadline to delist inactive NFTs on the platform. The new upgrade required OpenSea users to transfer their listed NFTs from the ETH Blockchain to a new smart contract.
Soon after the upgrade, reports started to emerge about an ongoing attack that targets the soon-to-be-delisted NFTs.
To which OpenSea CEO posted, "We don't believe it's connected to the OpenSea website. It appears 32 users so far have signed a malicious payload from an attacker, and some of their NFTs were stolen."
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