Data leak [loss] $870,000

"Mark Cuban on how he lost $870k to crypto scam — 'They must have been watching'"

2023-09-15 [vendor] Mark Cuban
Primary Source ↗
Financial Loss $870,000 (870,000 USD)

Incident Details

Billionaire crypto evangelist Mark Cuban apparently fell victim to a hack when an attacker was able to siphon around $870,000 in multiple cryptocurrencies from a wallet belonging to him. Cuban later acknowledged the hack to DL News. “They must have been watching,” he said, explaining that “I’m pretty sure I downloaded a version of MetaMask with some shit in it”.This isn’t the first time Cuban has been burned by the crypto industry. In June 2021, he lost “enough that I wasn’t happy about it” in the collapse of the Titan stablecoin. Cuban is also a defendant in a class action lawsuit related to his endorsement of Voyager, a crypto broker that collapsed in July 2022.

Total loss estimated at $870,000.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Smart contract exploit / hack
Vendor / Product
Mark Cuban

Timeline

  1. 2023-09-15 Breach occurred
  2. 2023-09-15 Publicly disclosed