Vitalik Buterin’s X account hacked to carry out phishing attack that stole $700,000 in crypto, NFTs

Scam Details

SCAM TYPE

Twitter Account Hack

DATE DISCOVERED

10/09/23

NUMBER OF PEOPLE IMPACTED

SCAM DESCRIPTION

When the account was taken over, it was used to advertise a fake commemorative NFT mint that supposedly had a time limit, encouraging users to mint them quickly. Yet the link was to a phishing website that would drain cryptocurrencies and NFTs from wallets that interacted with it.

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