Open Sea Phishing Attack : All Hands On Deck Kind Of Situation

When you are the number one in whatever you do, expect lots of challenges and lots of attacks, that’s the case for the number one NFT market place in the world. It’s been a roller coaster of challenges with open sea this year. Few weeks ago, open sea had to refund $1.8 Million to users who got their NFT sold at on old listing. Blames went towards a bug, but that’s not the end of it.

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Seems like a lot of open sea users got some kind of email telling them to migrate their NFT to a different side of opensea and promised that this migration will be gas fee free. Lots of users fell for this and got their NFTs phished from their account, the phishing account successfully sold some of these NFTs for $1.7 Million.

When 1 person complains about some malfunction, it’s easy to blame the person’s incompetence and mistakes. But when 2 or more people start complaining about the same thing, then that should be considered a reason to pay attention. But 32 users got their NFTs phished out from their account. That’s worth investigating and actually focusing all hands to make sure that the situation is rectified and prevent more damages from happening.

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This is why it’s always good to be careful when using a website. Be careful, on Hive we have seen lots of phishing messages sent to us a comment, unlucky newbies or rather unlucky Hivers who get to click and input their keys and password get their accounts hacked.

The timing of the phishing came at the right time when open sea started a new contract to help stop the bug of having NFTs get sold for old list price. These phishers used this as an opportunity to strategically come in and use it to scam these Opensea users. Just as much as we are going to place some amount of blame on the users for being not careful with the site, we can’t help but see how smart the phishers were with the right timing.

The CEO and Co founder of open sea, Devin Finzer, took to Twitter to assure users that it’s just a phishing scam outside opensea. Assurance has been given through his tweet that the team is willing to help assist any user that has gotten their NFT stolen. It’s possible they can help them get their NFTs back or to an extent have the scammers pay for their malicious acts.

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