Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s account on X (formerly Twitter) was compromised late at night on Sept. 9. Dmitriy Buterin, father of Vitalik, confirmed the hack through his X account.

Vitalik’s hacked account was used to promote a fishing link that stole crypto and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) from wallets that interacted with it. According to on-chain sleuth ZachXBT, the hacker has drained around $691,000 of assets from victims.

The phishing post, which has since been deleted, lured victims by claiming to celebrate “Proto-Danksharding coming to Ethereum.“ The hacker posted a malicious link to mint a fake free commemorative NFT. The fake NFT mint had a 24-hour time limit, urging victims to act quickly.

A CryptoPunk NFT worth 153 ETH or approximately $250,000, owned by Ethereum …