The world’s largest non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, OpenSea, has fallen victim to a large-scale phishing attack that saw hackers make away with NFTs worth approximately $1.7 million.
On February 18th, OpenSea announced that the migration process to its new Wyvern smart contract system was live. Unfortunately, some hackers took advantage of the upgrade process to resend the same email to OpenSea users again, except with a different contract address.
Unfortunate victims of the phishing attack sent their NFTs to the hackers’ address, rather than the original address created by OpenSea for the upgrade.
- 0xa2c0946ad444dccf990394c5cbe019a858a945bd (attacker contract)
- 0x7be8076f4ea4a4ad08075c2508e481d6c946d12b (OpenSea contract)
According to blockchain security service PeckShield, 254 tokens were stolen over the course of the attack, including tokens from Decentraland and the Bored Ape Yacht Club. It places the value of the total NFTs stolen at an estimated $1.7 million.
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