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Non-fungible tokens (NFT) marketplace OpenSea said 17 users were impacted by the Sunday's phishing onslaught alternatively of the 32 users that was reported earlier.
The phishing onslaught was targeting astute contracts connected OpenSea's platform.
"Our archetypal number included anyone who had interacted with the attacker, alternatively than those who were victims of the phishing attack," the marketplace tweeted connected Monday.
The onslaught besides nary longer appears to beryllium active, arsenic determination has been nary enactment connected the malicious declaration for implicit 15 hours, the institution said.
CEO Devin Finzer subsequently tweeted that 32 users had "signed a malicious payload from an attacker, and immoderate of their NFTs were stolen."
Blockchain information institution PeckShield said that the exploit was "most apt phishing", whereby users authorized the migration of their NFTs to a caller astute declaration allowing them to beryllium stolen. NFTs are integer assets connected a blockchain that correspond ownership of virtual oregon carnal items.
OpenSea is among the astir salient platforms successful the NFT world, with a caller $300 cardinal concern circular valuing it astatine $13.3 billion. It has seen $3.77 cardinal of trading measurement successful the past 30 days, according to information from DappRadar.
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