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2022-02-09 [vendor] Samsung environmental NFT project announced [chain] ethereum, polygon
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

  1. 2022-02-09 Breach occurred
  2. 2022-02-09 Publicly disclosed