Nonfungible token (NFT) market Magic Eden needed to guarantee customers their NFTs “are secure” after a spate of pornographic photographs littered its platform on Jan. 3.
In a Jan. 3 tweet, the Solana-based NFT market informed its customers it “has not been hacked” and the “unsavory photographs” have been the results of its third-party picture internet hosting supplier being “compromised.”
In response to Jan. 3 tweets from Magic Eden customers, loading a group’s web page would generally briefly flash a pornographic picture instead of the NFT thumbnail.
Yo @MagicEden wtf is that this pic.twitter.com/Xums9EZtm6
— Fede (@fedeonekenoby) January 3, 2023
Others reported seeing a nonetheless from the comedy tv collection The Huge Bang Idea as a substitute.
“Anybody else seeing the characters from the collection Huge Bang Idea in a short time whereas loading their objects on Magic Eden? WTH did I simply witness” @Yaboibeclownin tweeted.
Uhhhhhh https://t.co/VT2m8fBrPh pic.twitter.com/NEftIkywHu
— Clôwn (@Yaboibeclownin) January 3, 2023
Magic Eden suggested customers that doing a “exhausting refresh” of 1’s browser would repair the difficulty.
A tough refresh sometimes includes clearing the browser’s cache and forcing it to reload the newest model of the web page.
Hey guys our picture supplier, a third occasion service we use to cache photographs, was compromised. Your NFTs are secure and Magic Eden has not been hacked. Sadly you may’ve seen some um, unsavory photographs. Be sure you do a tough refresh in your browser to repair it.
— Magic Eden (@MagicEden) January 3, 2023
On the time of writing, the difficulty seems to have been rectified because the reported photographs haven’t appeared on the platform upon testing.
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In accordance to DappRadar, Magic Eden is the most important Solana-based NFT market and the third largest of all NFT marketplaces, with a 30-day buying and selling quantity of $74.65 million, behind OpenSea and Blur.
