sandbox altcoin, He announced in a blog post that he had regained control of his Instagram account after the attack early Thursday morning.
hackers, metaverse accessed the official account of the platform, which has 184,000 followers, and posted a phishing link. It is not yet clear how they took control of the account. After the security breach was discovered, the account was immediately disabled and is now back online.
Sandbox Reports An Altcoin User Has Been Scammed In Hack Incident
Sandbox said that as far as they know, only one user has been scammed and they are working with him to “resolve his situation”.
The company added the following in their statement:
“The trust of our community is very important to us and we are taking steps to further secure our social media accounts. We are currently reviewing our security records and internal processes to strengthen security across all our platforms.”
The hackers’ wallet shows that it has four NFTs transferred from two wallets following the Instagram leak. Among them is a World of Women Galaxy NFT.
NFT phishing scams are common on social media. In April, BAYC’s official Instagram was hacked and hackers stole $2.8 million in NFTs.
In some cases, hackers cryptocurrency approaches its users for special exchanges from their social media accounts. After agreeing on the price, they persuade their victims to link their wallets to a scam trading site, thus emptying their wallet’s contents. In May, 29 Moonbirds worth $1.5 million were seized in this way.
Accounts with a blue tick are particularly tempting to hackers in the hope that the official appearance will fool more people.
Sandbox continued his statements on the subject as follows:
“This incident reminds us that we should never let our guard down. Because of our profile, hackers and phishers will constantly try to test us. No matter how hard they try, we will work harder to keep your and our accounts safe.”
*Not investment advice.