NFT influencer falls victim to cyberattack, loses $300K+ cryptopunks
They appear to have authorized a malicious Dapp to transfer their tokens, leading the assets to be drained immediately. NFT Influencer CryptoNovo announced on Jan 4. that they have fallen victim to a cyberattack and lost two cryptopunks. The post on Twitter says “I just got hacked!!! Are you kidding me!?!” and includes a screenshot from OpenSea displaying two cryptopunks being transferred to another address. I just got hacked!!! Are you kidding me!?! pic.twitter.com/r1xS0mhD6P — CryptoNovo (@CryptoNovo311) January 4, 2023 The two cryptopunks were immediately sold by the attacker, one for 70 ETH (worth an equivalent $88,434 at time of publication) and the other for 199 ETH ($251,404). This implies that CryptoNovo lost over $300K worth of cryptopunks in the attack. The record of cryptopunk#4608 allegedly being transferred to the attacker’s wallet, moved to another wallet, and then sold for 199 ETH. Source: OpenSea Numerous other NFTs were apparently taken from the influencer , in...