Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has shared with the crypto community details of the recent hack of his X account. Via a post on the decentralized social media platform, Farcaster, on September 12, Buterin confirmed he had lost his X account to hackers via a SIM swap attack. 

Vitalik Buterin Confirms SIM Swap Hack Was Behind $691,000 Theft

On September 9, hackers took over Vitalik’s Buterin X account and posted a link announcing the launch of fake commemorative non-fungible tokens (NFTs) from software company Consensys.

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Using this link, the bad actors stole $691,000 worth of assets from some of Vitalik’s 4.9 million followers who had connected their wallets to mint the supposed …