Vitalik Buterin's X account gets breached, leads to $691k loss for his followers

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Vitalik Buterin's X account gets breached, leads to $691k loss for his followers

Ethereum's co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, faced a security breach on his X (previously known as Twitter) profile, leading to an alleged theft of over $691,000. The compromised link, which falsely advertised a complimentary NFT, was the medium of this scam.

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Mateoto

lemmy.world

Well, sue Musk for pulling security features from Twitter and enabling scams like that.

niktemadur

lemmy.world

Whoever the hell keeps on falling for this shit when Vitalik has repeated over and over and over again that he does NOT do any of these bullshit online giveaways?

It's like falling for the Nigerian prince scam. Some people insist on being conned.