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"Snap to 'sunset' web3 team in company restructuring"
Primary Source ↗Affected
1K
individuals/accounts
Incident Details
Snap Program Manager Jake Sheinman tweeted that “As a result of the company restructure, decisions were made to sunset our web3 team. The same team that I co-founded last year with other pirates who believed in digital ownership and the role that AR can play to support that.” Snap, the company behind Snapchat, had been working on a feature that would enable users to import their NFTs and use them as augmented reality filters.This news came amidst the announcement that Snap would be laying off 20% of its staff, a whopping 1,300 people.
Technical Details
- Vendor / Product
- Snapchat abandons web3 plans
Timeline
- 2022-08-31 Breach occurred
- 2022-08-31 Publicly disclosed