Cryptocurrency
"Turn Red Hearts Green at Samsung 837X for Valentine’s Day. Here’s how!"
Primary Source ↗Blockchain(s)
Ethereum, Polygon
Incident Details
Samsung launches a “sustainability-themed quest” on their “Samsung 837X” Decentraland metaverse project, where they invite characters to hunt for “recyclable product boxes”, plant trees in the (virtual) forest, and earn NFT badges.The press release doesn’t happen to mention that the Decentraland project is built on Ethereum, which was at the time a proof-of-work blockchain that used over 100 TWh of electricity per year — around the same amount as countries like the Netherlands or Finland.
Technical Details
- Vendor / Product
- Samsung environmental NFT project announced
Timeline
- 2022-02-09 Breach occurred
- 2022-02-09 Publicly disclosed