Three NFTs stolen from OpenSea recovered and sought to be returned

Mintable, the new platform for trading NFTs, has acquired three of the non-fungible tokens stolen these past days from OpenSea and seeks to return them to their original owners.

Last week one of the big news in the world of NFTs (non-fungible token) was the phishing (data robbery) suffered by OpenSea, the largest  platforms to trade NFTs, and that affected many users in which it is estimated an approximate of USD 1.7 million in losses and the platform attributed to an external hacker and not an internal failure, according to recent reports. 

Although OpenSea reimbursed affected users with Ether, NFTs have sentimental and economic value and are of great importance to some users.  That’s why Mintable acquired three NFTs from the Azuki collection (#1178, #4176 and #1180), that they found in an auction on LooksRare’s marketplace.

«This exploit was possible because of a bug on OpenSea, and If OpenSea isn’t going to make it right, someone has to,» stated Mintable founder and CEO, Zach Burks, «For some of these people, all their net worth is tied up in their NFTs and it’s horrible to have them stolen. We like the Azuki community and we want to help give back to the people who lost over $140,000 through the exploit.»

Mintable sprang into action and reached out to the Azuki project team to find the owners of these NFTs so that with the help of the community they can be returned safely.

This proves once again that even the biggest platforms can still have gigantic flaws and that we must operate very carefully and securely, but that there is always a community supporting everyone in one way or another to keep building a safer space.