Azuki, a popular non-fungible token (NFT) project, had its Twitter account compromised on January 27, leading hackers to steal more than $750,000 worth of USD Coin (USDC) by posting a malicious link that He said it was to mint virtual lands.
Hackers stole 751,321.80 USDC from a single wallet half an hour after the malicious links were tweeted, according to Etherscan data provided to Cointelegraph by the cryptocurrency wallet security firm; WalletGuard.
The data also revealed that hackers stole another 6,752.62 USDC tokens from various wallets containing 11 NFTs and more than 3.9 Ether (ETH).
Wallet Guard stated that the total amount stolen was USD 758,074.42.
Emily Rose, community manager for the anime-inspired NFT project, confirmed via Twitter on January 27 that Azuki’s account had been hacked, warning users not to click any links on Azuki’s Twitter account. .
AZUKI OFFICIAL TWITTER ACCOUNT IS HACKED.
DO NOT CLICK LINKS FROM OUR ACCOUNT.
PLEASE RETWEET.
—Rose | | â›©ï¸ NGL (@emilyrosemcg) January 27, 2023
Azuki’s community manager and product manager, Dem, explained in a TwitterSpace organized by Wallet Guard on January 27 that scammers were able to “post a wallet drain link” after gaining control of Azuki’s Twitter account.
Dem urged users to “stay safe and be wary” as the team tried to regain control of the account.
Several hours later, Azuki declared that he had regained control of his Twitter account through a tweet:
1/ The @AzukiOfficial Twitter was compromised today. A series of malicious tweets were posted during the morning of Friday, Jan 27th (Pacific Time).
The team has regained control of the @AzukiOfficial Twitter.
Details below
—Azuki (@AzukiOfficial) January 27, 2023
This was confirmed by Rose and Dem by retweeting the announcement.
Liz Yang, head of growth at Chiru Labs, the company behind Azuki, told Cointelegraph that the team is “currently in contact with Twitter and investigating the breach,” noting that Azuki “will provide an update once we have more information.”
Ohm Shah, co-founder of Wallet Guard, told Cointelegraph that “it doesn’t matter” whether an account is official or verified, users should treat everything as suspicious until proven otherwise. Shah noted:
“Don’t be the first person to click on the link. It’s better to be paranoid about Web 3.0 than not.”
Upon regaining control of the account, Azuki stressed to his followers in a Tweet that they always “check multiple channels” to confirm the ads.
He also noted to contact Azuki’s “mod team” on Discord if in doubt.
This news comes after the Twitter account of the stock trading platform, Robinhood, was compromised on January 25.
The hackers encouraged Robinhood followers to each pay $0.0005 for a token called “RBH” on the BNB Chain.
Conor Grogan, Coinbase’s head of commodity trading operations, tweeted that at least 10 people had purchased approximately $1,000 of the scam token before the tweet was removed.
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