marketplace OpenSea is investigating a “phishing attack” that has left more than two dozen of its users without access to some of their most valuable digital tokens. On late Saturday evening, panic hit the platform when someone stole hundreds of NFTs.
We have confidence that this was a phishing attack. We don’t know where the phishing occurred, but we’ve been able to rule out a number of things based on our conversations with the 32 affected users. Specifically:
— Devin Finzer (dfinzer.eth) (@dfinzer) February 20, 2022
Over several hours that afternoon, the attacker targeted 32 accounts and obtained 254 tokens, according to a compiled by Blockchain security service PeckShield. Among the stolen NFTs are tokens from the and collections. One estimate by , the creator of the , pegged the haul at 641 Ethereum (approximately $1.7 million at the time of this article).
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