Cryptocurrency

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2022-03-28 [vendor] MkLeo Twitter account [chain] ethereum
Primary Source ↗
Blockchain(s) Ethereum

Incident Details

MkLeo, who is widely considered to be the best Smash Ultimate player in the world, had his 217,000-follower Twitter account hacked and repurposed for NFT shilling. The scammers changed his profile picture to a pink robot creature with green drool, and began posting tweets talking about his supposed collaboration with The Possessed NFT project. The link in the tweets went to a scam website that claimed to allow people to mint NFTs from the actual Possessed NFT project. It’s not yet clear how many people fell for the malicious link, but MkLeo’s Twitter account appeared to be back under his control later that evening.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Smart contract exploit / hack
Vendor / Product
MkLeo Twitter account

Timeline

  1. 2022-03-28 Breach occurred
  2. 2022-03-28 Publicly disclosed