Rosie Perper
Rosie Perper is the Deputy Managing Editor for the Web3 news section, focusing on the metaverse, NFTs, DAOs and emerging technology like VR/AR. Prior to that, she worked in media, global finance, technology, culture and business. It holds a few btc and eth and several nfts.
Kevin Rose, CEO and co-founder of non-fungible token () collective Proof, tweeted on Wednesday that his personal wallet had been hacked.
In a tweet, Rose advised his 1.6 million followers to avoid buying any Chromie Squiggles, a generative art NFT project by Art Blocks founder Erick Calderon, aka Snowfro. Rose said he lost 25 graffiti, as well as "some other NFT", including an autoglyphe.
I was just hacked, stay tuned for details - please avoid buying any squiggles until we get them flagged (just lost 25) + a few other NFTs (an autoglyph) ...
— K?VIN R?SE (??,??) (@kevinrose) January 25, 2023
The floor price for a Squiggle on secondary marketplace OpenSea is 13.3 ETH, or about $20,700 at the time of writing. Rarer Squiggles NFTs have even sold for up to 945 ETH, or $2.8 million.
It appears that an effort has been made to flag and retrieve the stolen NFTs from OpenSea. One Twitter account estimated that the wallet contained millions of dollars' worth of rare NFTs.
Pink and OPENSEA representatives did not immediately respond to requests for feedback.
Rose's hack is the latest in a series of valuable achievements targeting well-known web3 figures. Earlier this month, Nikhil Gopalani, chief operating officer of Nike (NKE)-owned NFT project RTFKT, and CryptoNovo, a prominent NFT collector, lost NFTs estimated to have been worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to scammers.