The Twitter account of digital artist Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, was hacked and scammers stole $438,000.
Beeple’s Twitter account on May 22 has been hacked and scammers shared a few posts stating that Beeple is again collaborating with the famous clothing brand Louis Vuitton, and will give NFT. Via posts that are actually a phishing scam $438,000 was stolen.
Beeple launched the “Louis The Game” of the luxury fashion brand in early May. designed 30 NFTs for his mobile game. Fraudsters take advantage of this cooperation. will give free NFT He shared that stated.
One of the shares is about NFT generator for 5 hours account and approx. $73k ethereum scammed. Sharing a second link, the scammer stole from high-value NFTs such as Mutant Ape, VeeFriends, and Otherdeeds, resulting in a total $438,000 got it.
According to On-Chain data, the scammer sold NFTs on Opensea. Beeple later retrieved his account and said the previous posts were scams.
Beeple’s artwork “Everdays: The First 5000 Days”, The auction took place at Christie’s, the world-famous auction house. $69.3 million It was sold out and is the 2nd most expensive NFT ever sold.