Ethereum (ETH) network and the world’s largest NFT trading platform. OpenSea, commemorated with a very serious attack. PeckShield According to the statement made by the platform, users were attacked instead of the platform, but many users suffered serious losses, causing this to be referred to as a platform-wide attack.
OpenSea Hacked
The event was first commemorated on the night of February 19. OpenSea’The CTO of the platform was on the stage at the ETHDenver conference when it was reported that . The user named GT DOG was one of the first to announce this, and it was reported that many NFTs were stolen.
🚨🚨OPENSEA EXPLOITED🚨🚨 Everyone tag @opensea to get them to pause their new contract while everyone figures out whats going on with the exploit! #NFT #NFTs #NFTheft #NFTScam #NFTSecurity #NFTAlert
— gt_dog (@gt_dog84) February 20, 2022
According to the first information, 32 users were affected by this situation and the attacker directly transferred the most valuable NFTs of the victims to his own account. Although this happened after OpenSea’s new smart contract development led to the thought that the problem was with OpenSea, the CEO made a different statement on the subject.
CEO Devin Finzer stated that this is a phishing attack. According to the information conveyed by Finzer, a very realistic e-mail to the users was enough to deceive them, and those who clicked on the link gave the attacker full authority.
As far as we can tell, this is a phishing attack. We don’t believe it’s connected to the OpenSea website. It appears 32 users thus far have signed a malicious payload from an attacker, and some of their NFTs were stolen.
— Devin Finzer (dfinzer.eth) (@dfinzer) February 20, 2022
Although Finzer states that the attack has now stopped, details such as how users’ information was captured or how such an e-mail was sent continue to cause fear. According to the information conveyed by PeckShield, NFT worth 1.7 million dollars has been stolen for now.
All stolen NFTs can be seen in the report below.
Here is the list of NFTs stolen in @opensea phishing incidenthttps://t.co/s9OmiJu2m3 pic.twitter.com/xE1tFJnDMK
— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) February 20, 2022