Another attack on users of the NFT marketplace OpenSea emerged yesterday February 20th. As reported by CryptoSlate, the CEO of the NFT marketplace, Devin Finzer, tweeted that it’s likely a phishing at...
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OpenSea Sued For 1 Million Dollars By User Who Lost His Bored Ape NFT
The OpenSea drama continues to stir up controversy, and although many NFT owners took their massive losses, one of the victims had enough and decided to take his case to court. Timothy McKimmy, an NFT...
OpenSea Faces $1M Lawsuit Over Hacked Bored Ape
A now former Bored Ape Yacht Club owner is entering uncharted territory this week and filing a lawsuit against leading NFT marketplace OpenSea. The move comes after the former Bored Ape owner was subj...
Opensea Stalls Ongoing Upgrade as Hackers Exploit Their Systems – crypto.news
Earlier today, PerkShield Inc tweeted flagging some suspicious activity on OpenSea. The tweet explained a possible phishing attack as users migrated their NFTs according to emailed instructions. OpenS...
Scammer steals $1.7 million worth of NFTs from OpenSea users
TL;DR Breakdown Several OpenSea users fell victim to a phishing attack. The alleged attacker stole over $1.7 million worth of NFTs. The attacker used the platforms new contract migration email to t...
OpenSea Specifies The Number Of Affected Users But Still Finding The Cause Of Hack
OpenSea, a New York-based NFT marketplace that claimed it got hacked over the weekend, publicizes the new number of individuals affected in a so-called “phishing attack.” The company’s tweet specifies...
Bored Ape Owner Files $1M Lawsuit Against OpenSea Over ‘Stolen’ NFT
In brief Timothy McKimmy wants his Bored Ape NFT back and/or damages of more than $1 million. His lawsuit may be just the first one over an exploit involving “inactive listings” on OpenSea...
OpenSea Hack: Key Takeaways on Web3 Security
Key Takeaways A hacker stole millions of dollars worth of NFTs from OpenSea users over the weekend. It’s thought that the hacker tricked users into approving transactions that allowed their wall...
OpenSea Investigates Theft of High-profile Non-Fungible Tokens
Non-fungible tokens belong to the creator. They are handed over to the buyer or collector after they purchase the NFTs from an authorized platform. Anything that happens in another way is unoriginal a...
OpenSea Says Phishing Attack Likely Caused ‘Small Number’ of Users To Lose Access to NFTs
Top non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea says a phishing attack is likely behind the exploit that left a small number of users unable to access their NFTs. Earlier this month, OpenSea announce...
OpenSea CEO Clarifies Phishing Attack Did Not Originate on Platform
OpenSea co-founder and CEO Devin Finzer clarified that the recent phishing attack that saw $1.7 million stolen did not originate from the platform. The team is investigating the matter to locate the s...
OpenSea Confirms Under Phishing Attack, after Urging Users to Migrate NFTs New Addresses
Hours after OpenSea announced an upgrade to delist inactive Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) on its platform. Some users have been targeted explicitly through a phishing attack disguised as a legitimate ema...
Opensea CEO Dismisses $200 Million Hack Rumor, Claims Incident Was a Phishing Attack – Security Bitcoin News
Opensea co-founder and CEO, Devin Finzer, has denied rumors that the non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace’s codebase was breached and that attackers had stolen $200 million. According to Finzer, an in...
OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer Responds to $1.7 Million Phishing Attack
Last night, reports surfaced that NFT collectors had been losing NFTs and Ethereum from wallets. OpenSea has now confirmed that what happened was a phishing attack, which saw over $1.7 million in asse...
Can attacks on OpenSea backfire Ethereum and benefit Solana
The OpenSea CEO on 20 February announced an ongoing investigation for a phishing attack on 32 OpenSea users. Reportedly, $3 million of NFTs have been stolen. It is to be noted that this growing fear o...
OpenSea Admits Phishing Attack On Its Platform, 32 Users Affected
Leading Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea has confirmed that the platform recently suffered a phishing attack. According to the report, the attack has so far affected 32 users who lost a co...
OpenSea CEO Reassures Users After Phishing Attack
OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer is confident, after talking to people, teams, and projects in the NFT space, that users’ NFT losses did not originate on opensea.io but from third-party websites. The largest ...
OpenSea Hack: NFTs Worth Millions Stolen From Users
The NFT platform is looking into rumors that a hacker is stealing high-value NFTs from the platform’s users. OpenSea Users Face Another Attack High-value NFTs are reportedly under attack from hackers...
OpenSea Confirms Phishing Attack, Here Is What We Know
Almost 12 hours ago, leading NFT marketplace OpenSea confirmed its team was investigating a potential exploit related to its smart contracts. The platform claimed it was attacked by a phishing strateg...
OpenSea suffers “phishing” attack, users lose NFTs worth millions
Users of OpenSea were once again the victims of hacks yesterday, with millions worth of NFTs stolen. While the source of the attack remains undetermined, the CEO of the NFT marketplace, Devin Finzer, ...
Nearly $2 Million In ETH Stolen From OpenSea Users In Latest ‘Phishing Attack’ ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     The world’s largest NFT market place OpenSea suffered an exploit that left dozens of NFTs missing. The news came in after a series of tweets by some ...
OpenSea NFT Hack Exposes Web3 Self-Custody Risks
Key Takeaways A hacker stole hundreds of NFTs from OpenSea users last night. While a post-mortem report has not yet been published, OpenSea team has claimed that the hacker executed a phishing attack ...
Dozens of NFTs Were Stolen
Hackers stole highly valued Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) from opensea. It appears the hackers exploited an upgrade from opensea to a new smart contract by commencing a phishing attack. Q4 2021 volumes h...
NFT Marketplace OpenSea Suffers Massive Phishing Attack
Alex Dovbnya The NFT community has been flummoxed by the recent OpenSea hack, which appears to be the result of a phishing attack Online non-fungible token marketplace OpenSea has started investigatin...
$1.7 Million in ETH Stolen from OpenSea Users: The NFT Marketplace Investigates
OpenSea users complained about a phishing attack that resulted in countless stolen non-fungible tokens, according to PeckShield. At the same time, the NFT marketplace said it was investigating these “...
OpenSea planned upgrade stalls as phishing attack targets NFT migration
Just yesterday, OpenSea announced a smart contract upgrade, which requires users to migrate their listed NFTs from Ethereum (ETH) blockchain to a new smart contract. As a direct result of the upgrade,...
OpenSea CEO Says NFT Exploit Was Likely a ‘Phishing Attack’
OpenSea says it is “actively investigating rumors of an exploit” that occurred on the popular Ethereum NFT marketplace Saturday. Users reported that digital assets, including NFTs from the...
OpenSea is investigating rumors of a multi-million dollar NFT exploit
advertisement The nascent market for non-fungible tokens was sent into a tizzy Saturday evening after millions of dollars worth of NFTs on OpenSea were swiped by a hacker. At the time of writing, it i...
OpenSea smart contract upgrade to delist inactive NFTs on Ethereum
OpenSea, one of the most popular nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace, has rolled out an upgrade to its smart contract, a proactive measure to weed out inactive listings on the platform. As a part of t...
X2Y2 Up 235% After Airdrop to OpenSea NFT Collectors
Key Takeaways A new NFT marketplace called X2Y2 has launched with a token airdrop. It distributed tokens to OpenSea users and is currently up around 235%. The marketplace is currently paying out 8,000...