Opensea CEO Dismisses $200 Million Hack Rumor, Claims Incident Was a Phishing Attack

Opensea co-founder and CEO, Devin Finzer, has denied rumors that the non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace’s codebase was breached and that attackers had stolen $200 million. According to Finzer, an investigation had shown that the attacker had $1.7 million worth of ethereum in his wallet by leveraging a phishing scheme.

Attacker Reportedly Returns Some Stolen NFTs

Devin Finzer, the co-founder and CEO of Opensea has denied reports that the NFT marketplace has been breached. Instead, Finzer has characterized the alleged hacking incident as a “phishing attack,” which he insists is not connected to Opensea’s website. He did, however, admit that some of the more than 30 users that “signed a malicious payload from an attacker” had their NFTs stolen.

While Finzer did not give the estimated value of the stolen NFTs, a Twitter user named Mr. Whale suggested in a tweet, posted a few hours after the breach, that “over $200M [was] lost already.” Another user named Jacob King rejected Finzer and Opensea’s phishing attack claim. The user claims that a “flaw in their code led to one of the largest NFTs exploits in history.