Non-fungible token (NFT) influencer who goes by ‘NFT God’ on Twitter misplaced all his digital belongings in a hack on Jan. 14. One in every of his almost 90,000 Twitter followers purchased NFT God’s stolen Mutant Ape Yacht Membership NFT and supplied to return it at price worth — over $25,000.
Earlier within the day, NFT God, whose actual title is Alex, downloaded the video streaming service OBS. Nonetheless, he used a sponsored hyperlink on Google that contained malware-infected software program. Cybersecurity knowledgeable John Hammond warned individuals towards the faux OBS software program two weeks in the past.
A few hours later, a follower alerted Alex that his Twitter account had been compromised. Inside minutes, Alex recovered management of his Twitter account and deleted the rip-off tweets posted by the hackers.
After just a few hours, Alex realized that the Twitter hack was just the start of a string of assaults. All his wallets had been drained of cryptocurrencies and NFTs, price what Alex described as a “life-changing quantity.”
Hours later, Alex came upon that the hackers had additionally taken management of his Gmail, Discord, and Substack. The attackers had additionally despatched out two emails with phishing hyperlinks to his 16,000 subscribers.
A expensive mistake
Whereas organising his Ledger account, Alex “screwed up,” he wrote in a Twitter thread. Regardless of being “extremely technical,” Alex made a mistake and entered his seed phrase in a manner that “not stored it chilly,” he wrote.
Since he had not bought any new NFTs for months and had no plans of doing so shortly, Alex procrastinated shopping for one other Ledger chilly pockets.
This error allowed the hackers to achieve management of Alex’s crypto and NFTs via the malware assault on his desktop. Alex wrote:
“Not shopping for a brand new chilly pockets instantly was a lethal mistake. However even with a chilly pockets, my total digital world would nonetheless be destroyed. Digital safety isn’t simply shopping for a chilly pockets. It’s additionally being cautious with EVERYTHING you do on the web. Every thing.”
