Cryptocurrency [loss] $159,300

"Nike's RTFKT COO Loses His NFTs in Massive Hack"

2023-01-02 [vendor] Nikhil Gopalani NFT theft [chain] ethereum
Primary Source ↗
Financial Loss $159,300 (159,300 USD)
Blockchain(s) Ethereum

Incident Details

An attacker drained the wallet of Nikhil Gopalani, the COO of the Nike-owned crypto organization RTFKT. Most of the stolen NFTs were RTFKT NFTs, and the priciest were the nineteen CloneX NFTs that the thief flipped for between $5,850 and $13,960 each, for a total of 112.3 ETH ($136,000). Gopalani’s wallet was also relieved of nineteen RTFKT Animus Eggs (priced at a cumulative ~$20,000 based on floor price) and eleven RTFKT x Nike Dunk Genesis CRYPTOKICKS NFTs (priced at a cumulative $3,300).Gopalani tweeted that “I was hacked by a clever Phisher (same phone # as apple ID) & sold all my clone x / some other nfts… Obviously pretty upset and hurt by this and I havent really been able to move all day.” He didn’t provide further details, but a tweet by RTFKT CTO Samuel Cardillo suggested that Gopalani may have provided passwords or private keys to a phisher.

Total loss estimated at $159,300.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Smart contract exploit / hack
Vendor / Product
Nikhil Gopalani NFT theft

Timeline

  1. 2023-01-02 Breach occurred
  2. 2023-01-02 Publicly disclosed