RTFKT COO loses NFTs worth $170K to phishing attack

Nike RTFKT COO Nikhil Gopalani said connected Jan. 3 that helium mislaid each his NFTs to a “clever phisher” who hacked his wallet.

Gopalani tweeted that the hacker stole each his Clone X NFTs and different unnamed integer assets successful a phishing attack. He added that the hacker had aforesaid telephone fig arsenic his Apple ID.

Etherscan data shows that the affected wallet is present worthy lone $0.11.

Additional accusation from OpenSea shows  the phisher drained Gopalani’s NFTs with 2 wallets — the attacker stole 19 CloneX, implicit 30 RTFKT-related NFTs, 17 Loot Pods, and 11 Crypto Kicks NFTs cumulatively worthy implicit $170,000.

Meanwhile, RTFKT CTO Samuel Cardillo suggested that his workfellow mightiness person provided confidential accusation to the hacker. He besides hinted that instrumentality enforcement agencies mightiness beryllium investigating the incident.

Cardillo said:

“Be alert that companies specified arsenic Microsoft, Apple, … volition ne'er inquire you for your password, your backstage cardinal nor immoderate different forms of backstage accusation via telephone nor emails.”

RTFKT is simply a virtual sneakers institution owned by Nike. The postulation has a level terms of 4 ETH, according to OpenSea data.

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