Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin confirmed that the hacking of his X account was executed through a sim-swap attack that took over his mobile phone number and accessed his account.<\/p>\n
Following the compromise of his X account<\/a> on September 9, Buterin took to the decentralized social media network Warpcast on September 12 to address the issue. He said he had finally regained control of his T-Mobile account after he lost it to the attack.<\/p>\n “Finally got back my T-mobile account (yes, it was a sim swap, meaning that someone socially engineered T-mobile itself to take over my phone number),” he wrote.<\/p>\n The compromise of the X account was made public by Dmitry Buterin<\/a>, Vitalik’s father, who stated that his son was actively trying to regain control of the account. During that time, scammers posted a phishing link accompanied by a false message that announced the release of a commemorative NFT by ConsenSys, celebrating Ethereum’s Proto-Danksharding introduction.<\/p>\n By clicking on the malicious link to get free NFTs, users gave the scammers access to their crypto wallets leading to the theft of assets worth over $691,000, according to data provided by Blockchain analyst ZachXBT. Of this amount, more than 73% was in the form of NFTs that users had been holding.<\/p>\n Update: $691k drained (another 33% in drainer fee address) pic.twitter.com\/AVIShqDlMU<\/a><\/p>\n — ZachXBT (@zachxbt) September 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n