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07 December 2023

New OpenSea attack led to theft of millions of dollars in NFTs

A few days ago, OpenSea published an article about the contract migration they are planning. The idea behind the OpenSea migration is to address the existing inactive listings of old NFT’s, and in order to do that, they are planning to upgrade to a new contract. All users will be required to “migrate” their listings on Ethereum to the new smart contract. Some hackers took advantage of the upgrade process and decided to scam NFT users by using the same email from OpenSea and resending it to the OpenSea victims.

 

Read more about it here.