Moonbirds NFTs drained in US$1.5M phishing scam

All-around US$1.5 million well worth of 29 Moonbirds non-fungible tokens (NFT) have been stolen in a phishing rip-off on Wednesday.

See associated short article: Beeple’s Twitter account latest sufferer to phishing rip-off hacks

Quick facts

• A phishing assault is where scammers use misleading means to direct victims to destructive inbound links to steal particular data.
• Twitter user @0xLosingMoney has presented blockchain and world wide web documents to accuse @Dvincent of contacting NFT house owners to supply private gross sales by means of fraudulent system “p2peers.io”
• The alleged perpetrator’s Twitter profile has due to the fact been deleted or deactivated, and was not accessible as of push time.
• Moonbirds was also the centre of a phishing assault in the very first number of days following launching in mid-April wherever scammers made use of hacked verified Twitter accounts to pose as official Moonbirds accounts.
• Scammers a short while ago hacked the Twitter account of star NFT artist Mike Winkelmann (Beeple) to run a phishing fraud that drained above US$72,000 worthy of of ETH.
• Moonbirds is one particular of the major NFT collections at the instant, transacting above US$500 million in revenue given that start.

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