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A KOL was drained for ‘lack of vigilance’

January 16, 2023
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Not only draining money and NFTs, the attacker also took above social accounts and site web page Substack of NFT God.

A KOL was drained for lack of vigilance
A KOL was drained for ‘lack of vigilance’

On January 13, KOL “NFT God”, whose authentic identify is Alex, mistakenly clicked on a malicious website link on Google even though downloading video streaming services OBS. Two weeks in the past, laptop or computer safety skilled John Hammond warned the neighborhood about this fake OBS computer software.

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Last evening my whole digital livelihood was hacked.

Every account linked to me the two personally and professionally has been hacked and employed to harm some others.

Least essential, I misplaced a daily life-altering quantity of my net well worth

— NFT God (@NFT_GOD) January 15, 2023

Hours later on, a follower alerted Alex that his Twitter account had been compromised. Within minutes, Alex had regained manage of the Twitter account and deleted the phishing tweets posted by the hackers.

However, the Twitter hack was only the starting of a series of attacks. All wallets, cryptocurrencies and NFTs that Alex termed “life changing money” have been dried up. Hackers also manage Alex’s Gmail, Discord, and Substack.

Without stopping there, the villain sent two emails containing phishing backlinks to sixteen,000 God’s Substack NFT subscribers. Ironically, one particular of Alex’s practically 90,000 Twitter followers purchased the stolen Mutant Ape Yacht Club NFT and made available to promote it for above $25,000. There are no harm estimates however, and it really is unclear irrespective of whether everyone grew to become a victim.

In a publish, Alex shared his error when setting up the Ledger account. Despite his technical information, Alex keeps creating problems and enters the seed phrase the incorrect way.

Due to not purchasing new NFTs in current months, Alex has delayed purchasing a new Ledger cold wallet. This error aided hackers get hold of Alex’s assets. The victim admitted:

“Not purchasing a new cold wallet ideal away is a fatal error. But even with a new wallet, my whole digital globe can be destroyed as typical. Security is not basically about purchasing a cold wallet, we also want to be cautious with all our actions on the Internet.”

According to ImmuneVeteran Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr hacked his wallet, dropping $three.three million in BTC HECO LendHub method hacked and misplaced practically $six million…

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