The billionaire said he logged in to his crypto wallets after months of inactivity but had likely clicked on a phishing link.
Later, Cuban was likely alerted of these transactions and managed to save over $2.5 million worth of Polygon’s MATIC tokens by logging into the wallet and transferring the tokens to a Coinbase exchange address.
The phishing attack apparently seemed to stem from a fake MetaMask wallet application downloaded by Cuban, heThis was the second phishing attack to hit a high-profile person in as many weeks. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s X account was compromised in a phishing attack in early September. Buterin did not seem to lose his own funds, but users lost a cumulative $700,000 by sending tokens to
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