Kevin Rose Says NFT Wallet With Dozens of High-Value Collectibles Hacked
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Kevin Rose, CEO and co-founder of non-fungible token (NFT) collective Proof, tweeted on Wednesday that his private pockets had been hacked.
In a tweet, Rose suggested his 1.6 million followers to keep away from shopping for any Chromie Squiggles, a generative artwork NFT mission by Artwork Blocks founder Erick Calderon, aka Snowfro. Rose mentioned he misplaced 25 Squiggles, together with “a couple of different NFTs,” together with an Autoglyph.
The ground worth for a Squiggle on secondary market OpenSea is 13.3 ETH, or about $20,700 on the time of writing. Rarer Squiggles NFTs have even bought for as much as 945 ETH, or $2.8 million.
It seems that an effort has been made to flag and retrieve the stolen NFTs from OpenSea. One Twitter account estimated that the pockets contained thousands and thousands of {dollars}’ value of uncommon NFTs.
Representatives for Rose and OpenSea did not instantly reply to requests for remark.
Rose’s hack is the newest in a sequence of high-value exploits concentrating on well-known Web3 figures. Earlier this month, Nikhil Gopalani, chief working officer of Nike (NKE)-owned NFT mission RTFKT, and CryptoNovo, a outstanding NFT collector, misplaced NFTs estimated to have been value tons of of hundreds of {dollars} to scammers.
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