Could I Get Another Scam, Please?
TL;DR
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Vitalik Buterin’s (founding father of Ethereum aka “ETH daddy”), Twitter/X account was hacked over the weekend.
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This is what we all know: After taking management over Vitalik’s account, the scammers posted a hyperlink to a pretend NFT assortment, main Vitalik’s followers to click on the hyperlink, join their pockets, then see their pockets completely drained.
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The outcome? Greater than $690K was stolen in a few hours. Poof! Gone within the blink of an eye fixed.
Full Story
Nobody is protected on the market.
Not even Vitalik Buterin (founding father of Ethereum aka “ETH daddy”), whose Twitter/X account was hacked over the weekend.
This is what we all know:
After taking management over Vitalik’s account, the scammers posted a hyperlink to a pretend NFT assortment, main Vitalik’s followers to click on the hyperlink, join their pockets, then see their pockets completely drained.
The outcome?
Greater than $690K was stolen in a few hours. Poof! Gone within the blink of an eye fixed.
What’s worse, the primary publicly-claimed Crypto Punk (basically the very first NFT ever minted valued at 150ETH or ~$234K) has been misplaced within the hack as nicely.
So how do these hacks work? Isn’t the blockchain alleged to be un-hackable?
Properly, it’s not the blockchain that obtained hacked, as a lot as it’s Twitter/Vitalik.
The overall guess as to the way it went down?
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Hackers sim swapped Vitaliks quantity (i.e. referred to as his cell supplier pretending to be him, claimed he’d misplaced his telephone and required a brand new sim).
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Pressured a password reset on Vitalik’s Twitter/X account.
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Verified the reset by way of textual content and began posting.
Some did…and as soon as they’d entered their password and related their wallets, the hackers have been free to empty them.
Ethical of the story?
Don’t use your telephone quantity for two-factor authentication.
