Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, had his X (formerly Twitter) account hacked, according to a report from prominent blockchain researcher ZachXBT. In the incident, victims collectively lost more than $691,000 after clicking on malicious links.
inPosting On September 9, on X, Dmitry Buterin, Vitalik’s father, announced that his son’s account had been compromised:
The malicious post has since been deleted. It was published on Buterin’s account, claiming to celebrate the arrival of “Proto-Danksharding. “Upcoming Ethereum” hackers shared a malicious link.that there will be free souvenir NFT tokens given away and victims are led to believe and connected their wallets before eventually having all their funds stolen.
The incident has Ethereum developer Bok Khoo, better known as Bokky Poobah on X, claiming that he has suffered losses. in his CryptoPunk NFT collection, which is valued at approximately $76,837.
ZachXBT has been continuously informing his 438,200 followers about the hacker’s activities. He recently shared that valuable NFTsThe latest stolen CryptoPunk #3983 was worth 153.62 ETH, or the equivalent of approximately $250,543.
refer : cointelegraph
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