NFT marketplace Mintable will return stolen NFTs from Opensea to their rightful owners.
on February 19 Opensea, the most popular NFT marketplace, requires users to migrate their listed assets to a newly created smart contract. announced the upgrade. A few hours after this announcement 32 Opensea users became a victim of a phishing attack. Total of these users worth $1.7 million Ether was stolen.
OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer tweeted a day after the event. with explanation your situation email He told me it was a scam.
Nadav Hollander, CTO of Opensea, who made a statement on the subject afterwards, said that this situation that it has nothing to do with the transition process to upgrade and the event before starting the upgrade said it happened.
Three of the stolen NFTs were found to belong to the Azuki NFT collection. Base price of Azuki NFTs on Opensea It is 11.79 eth.
Following these events, NFT marketplace Mintable announced that it plans to purchase NFTs from another marketplace, LookRare, to deliver them to their rightful owners.
Zach Burks, founder and CEO of Mintable, criticized Opensea’s indifference to this situation, saying, “from one billion dollars even though they have a lot of money $1.7 million NFTs They don’t give it back.” said.
Burks also said in his statement that he would work with the Azuki team to return the NFTs to their original owner. that they are looking for a way and will return soon told.