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Why NFTs on Magic Eden Are Unintentionally Displaying Porn, ‘Big Bang Theory’ Images


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Some customers of Magic Eden, the most important Solana market, noticed some curious photographs on the platform over the previous day as an alternative of the NFTs they tried to view—together with pornographic photographs and stills from the TV sequence “The Huge Bang Concept.”

Now {the marketplace} is blaming a hacked picture caching service for the temporary mix-up. Magic Eden, which additionally helps NFTs on Ethereum and Polygon, tweeted late Tuesday afternoon that “a third-party service” used for caching photographs had been compromised. Customers started tweeting concerning the situation late Monday.

“Your NFTs are secure and Magic Eden has not been hacked,” {the marketplace} tweeted. “Sadly, you would possibly’ve seen some um, unsavory photographs. Ensure you do a tough refresh in your browser to repair it.”

Yo @MagicEden wtf is that this pic.twitter.com/Xums9EZtm6

— Fede (@fedeonekenoby) January 3, 2023

The announcement got here after numerous customers tweeted about unexpectedly seeing nude pictures and pictures from the TV sequence starting on Monday. One video shared by a Twitter consumer exhibits “Huge Bang Concept” photographs flashing rather than their owned NFTs for a quick second earlier than the precise art work displayed as meant.

“What the fuck is occurring, why my 5-years-old child watching porn JPEGs on [the Magic Eden] web site,” Twitter consumer SolProfessor565 tweeted Tuesday.

Uhhhhhh https://t.co/VT2m8fBrPh pic.twitter.com/NEftIkywHu

— Clôwn (@Yaboibeclownin) January 3, 2023

A Magic Eden consultant informed Decrypt shortly after the tweet announcement that the startup, valued at $1.6 billion as of June 2022, first turned conscious of the state of affairs early this afternoon and carried out a repair inside an hour. Nevertheless, some customers have been nonetheless seeing the sudden photographs and wanted to laborious refresh their internet browser, so the assertion was made.

The corporate doesn’t imagine that it was particularly focused by way of the hack on the third-party vendor, a consultant added, which Magic Eden believes affected different web sites as nicely. The NFT startup wouldn’t identify the picture caching accomplice on account of safety issues.

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An NFT is a blockchain token that represents possession of a singular merchandise, together with digital items comparable to art work, collectibles, and online game objects. Magic Eden is the dominant participant within the Solana NFT market, and has steadily expanded to incorporate different platforms as nicely.

There have been previous examples of precise NFT art work being hosted on centralized internet servers, which may trigger issues ought to a server go offline. On this case, nonetheless, it seems that the Magic Eden web site itself skilled the problem on account of an assault on an exterior service supplier, and that the precise NFTs themselves have been in the end unaffected.


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