Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has shared with the crypto community details of the recent hack of his X account. Via a post on the decentralized social media platform, Farcaster, on September 12, Buterin confirmed he had lost his X account to hackers via a SIM swap attack.
Vitalik Buterin Confirms SIM Swap Hack Was Behind $691,000 Theft
On September 9, hackers took over Vitalik’s Buterin X account and posted a link announcing the launch of fake commemorative non-fungible tokens (NFTs) from software company Consensys.
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Using this link, the bad actors stole $691,000 worth of assets from some of Vitalik’s 4.9 million followers who had connected their wallets to mint the supposed commemorative NFTs.
Update: $691k drained (another 33% in drainer fee address) pic.twitter.com/AVIShqDlMU
— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) September 9, 2023
Interestingly, an X user with the handle Satoshi_767 stated t
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