Opensea CEO Dismisses $200 Million Hack Rumor, Claims Incident Was a Phishing...
Opensea co-founder and CEO, Devin Finzer, has denied rumors that the non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace’s codebase was breached and that attackers had stolen $200 million. According to Finzer, an investigation had shown that the attacker had $1.7 million worth of ethereum in his wallet by leveraging a phishing scheme. Attacker Reportedly Returns Some Stolen NFTs Devin Finzer, the co-founder and CEO of Opensea has denied reports that the NFT marketplace has been breached. Instead, Finzer has characterized the alleged hacking incident as a “phishing....
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