The price of bitcoin and many other popular cryptocurrencies has been teetering on the verge of collapse over the past few days, including due to the aggravation of the situation around Ukraine. However, the impetus for a sharp drop in the rate of cryptocurrencies was the news of an attack on the NFT exchange. OpenSeaas a result of which the attackers stole hundreds of non-fungible tokens worth more than $1.7 million.
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Over the past 24 hours, the cost of one bitcoin has fallen below $40,000, which indicates a decrease of more than 5%. At the time of this writing, a unit of bitcoin was given about $38,389. The minimum price over the past 24 hours is $38,014. In turn, Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency in the world by capitalization, has dropped by about 3% to $2666 at the time of writing ( minimum per day – $ 2602). Other popular cryptocurrencies such as BNB, XRP and Cardano lost about 5% on average.
Today’s price crash, which caused the capitalization of the cryptocurrency market to fall by about $70 billion in a day, is caused by a series of reports from worried NFT traders about the hacking of the OpenSea exchange. After that, the OpenSea platform stated that it had not been hacked, and users were attacked by scammers and themselves transferred their tokens to them. The company announced that it was investigating “rumors of an exploit.”
“As far as we can tell, this is a phishing attack. We don’t think this is related to the OpenSea website. It looks like the attacker’s malicious attack is affecting 32 users and some of their NFTs have been stolen.”— the chief executive of OpenSea Devin Finzer (Devin Finzer) reported.
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