popular digital artist Beeple saw her Twitter Inc. TWTR account hacked over the weekend, resulting in a phishing incident that netted scammers over $430,000 in theft Ethereum ETH/USD and NFTs.
What happened: metamask security analyst Harry Deley first sounded the alarm on Sunday, informing users that the link in Beeple’s Twitter bio redirected to a phishing website that would automatically empty users’ wallets once they logged in.
Once you have connected your wallet, will initiate a mint() contract call to 0x7b69c4f2ACF77300025E49DbDbB65B068b2Fda7D, which will send 1ETH to the contract.
At the time of entry, the website is not armed to “empty” the wallets by filling the tx wallet queue (as we have already seen) pic.twitter.com/GLb56r5ZDj
— harry.eth (whg.eth) (@sniko_) May 22, 2022
This was later confirmed by Beeple himself, who tweeted that “anything too good to be true IS AF*CKING SCAM”.
Stay safe there, anything too good to be true is a fucking scam.
And by the way, there will never be a SURPRISE MINT which I mention once at a place from 6am Sunday morning.
— beeple (@beeple) May 22, 2022
On-chain data shows that the first published link netted the scammers a total of 36 ETH worth around $73,000. The second link resulted in an even bigger jackpot – a cumulative total of over $365,000 in ETH and big prize NFTs including Mutant Apes and Otherdeeds.
The NFTs were then sold on OpenSea and the ETH was placed in a coin mixer by scammers attempting to launder the illegally obtained funds.
Beeple, whose real name is Michael Joseph Winkelman, has had some of the most successful NFT sales to date and is widely credited with bringing mainstream attention to the industry. The digital artist sold his NFT “The First 5000 Days” for a record $69 million last year.
See also: HOW TO BUY NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS (NFTS)
Price Action: According to data from Benzinga Pro, ETH was trading at $2,041 at press time, up 3.54% in the last 24 hours.
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