Last night, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s X (formerly Twitter) account was taken over and used to steal $700,000 in crypto and NFTs. 

When the account was taken over, it was used to advertise a fake commemorative NFT mint that supposedly had a time limit, encouraging users to mint them quickly. Yet the link was to a phishing website that would drain cryptocurrencies and NFTs from wallets that interacted with it. 

Through this phishing attack, around $700,000 in crypto and NFTs were lost, according to estimates from crypto sleuth ZachXBT and on-chain data. This included one CryptoPunk NFT worth 153 ETH ($250,000) and hundreds of ether from multiple individuals. Most of the NFTs have been sold, with many of the proceeds from the attack remaining in the hacker’s wallet.

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