Nike’s RTFKT COO Nikhil Gopalani becomes the latest victim of a vast hack losing multiple NFTs from his wallet. Â
Gopalani’s wallet has lost all of its NFTs at the time of this writing, aside from one: a Death Row Records NFT of the “Clone X Theme Song,” which is estimated to be worth $59 at this time.
OpenSea data shows that the attacker used two wallets to withdraw more than $173,000 worth of NFTs from Gopalani’s wallet, including 19 CloneX NFTs worth more than $138,000, 18 RTKFT Space Pods worth over $6,300, 17 Loot Pods worth $6,200, 11 CryptoKicks worth $3,000, 19 RTFKT Animus Eggs worth $20,200, etc.
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At the time of writing, one of the attackers’ wallets appeared to be empty, but the other still contain a significant amount of the COO’s assets. The total suffered loss is yet to be determined.
RTFKT CTO Samuel Cardillo tweeted, “We’ll now take extra measures to ensure security amongst the team. This seems to have been a specifically targeted attack (spoofing phone number, social engineering, …) & should serve as a good reminder that this can happen, to everyone & criminals are extra creative.”
When a Twitter user asked if the team could outline exactly how this phishing attack happened, to help the community safeguard assets going forward, Cardillo replied that for legal purposes, they won’t be able to go into deeper details until further notice.
“All I can say is: be aware that companies such as Microsoft, Apple, … will never ask you for your password, your private key nor any other forms of private information via phone nor emails,” Cardillo added.
Since his wallet was hacked, CloneX #17088, which continues to be Gopalani’s Twitter display picture, has already been traded twice. NFT collector lyx.eth, who also owns two additional CloneX NFTs, is the current owner of the CloneX #17088 NFT.
Lyx.eth stated that they had been searching to purchase an NFT similar to Gopalani for about half a year and were not aware that they were purchasing the COO’s stolen NFT. They claim that the RTFKT team has already gotten in touch in an effort to recover the stolen NFT.
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