$1.7 million worth of NFT works stolen from OpenSea platform

Digital works, worth $1.7 million, were stolen in a cyberattack on the NFT (non-fungible token) trading platform OpenSea, the company reported.

The co-founder of the company, Devin Finzer, explained on Twitter that the attack carried out with the “phishing” technique, in which private user data is captured, took place last Saturday for three hours, and although initially they pointed out that affected 32 people, today they reduced that figure to 17.

“We have narrowed the list of affected individuals to 17, instead of the previously mentioned 32,” OpenSea said in a tweet on Monday, explaining that the initial figure had been obtained by simply counting the number of users who had interacted with the attacker.

OpenSea also assured today that the attack “is no longer active” and noted that work is being done “around the clock” to try to determine “the exact source” of the theft.

The NFT are digital objects (a video, a musical recording, a text, or combinations of different media) that, thanks to the encryption technology of the block chain or “blockchain” (the same one used for cryptocurrencies), can be unique or artificially scarce, not only for artistic purposes, but also for economic purposes.

In the new trade NFTbuyers acquire the certification of owning a unique work or of which there are very few copies, in a similar way to the acquisition of an original in the conventional art market.

According to the specialized media The Verge, the attacker would have stolen a total of 254 NFTs during the three hours that the attack lasted, which have been valued at about 1.7 million dollars.

OpenSea, valued at around $13 billion, has become one of the biggest players in the NFT market by offering a simple interface for users to browse and bid on lists of non-fungible tokens.

However, The Verge points out that it has also suffered from several security problems, and that at the time of the attack the platform was updating its system.

Source: Elcomercio

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