Beeple’s Twitter account was hacked as part of phishing attack

On May 22 the Twitter account of the famous digital artist Mike Winkelmann, commonly known as Beeple, was hacked.

Harry Denley, a security analyst at Metamask, announced this via Twitter.

In his tweets, Denley warned that Beeple's tweets, which included a link to a raffle of a Louis Vuitton NFT partnership, were part of a phishing attack. Denley said that clicking the link would drain cryptocurrencies from users' wallets.

The scammer orchestrated this attack and was looking to capitalize on Beeple's recent collaboration with the fashion giant. This collaboration saw Beeple design 30 NFTs for Louis Vuitton's Louis The Game mobile game. The NFTs were included in the game as rewards for players.

The scammer continued to post phishing links from Beeple's account. The links led to fake Beeple collections that attracted unwitting users. The collections promised a free mint for unique NFTs.

If we assume everything is secure, the bad actors managed to scam: 0xf 305 is yet to withdraw from the tweet at the time of this tweet.

The scammer used a coin mixer to launder the proceeds.

The scammer sold the NFTs on Open Sea, according to on-chain data. The scammer sent the funds to a digital currency mixer to launder the proceeds.

Beeple eventually regained control over his account. He urged users to be careful, adding that anything that seems too good to be true is a scam.

MetaMask warned web 3 enthusiasts using Apple devices not to be wary of a phishing attack in the past month. An Apple user lost more than $650,000 worth of NFTs and ApeCoin APE Per MetaMask, Apple devices have a default security issue that allows malicious actors to see the seed phrase stored on Apple's iCloud storage service.