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Topic: Mark Cuban's Metamask was hacked - page 3. (Read 479 times)

legendary
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September 16, 2023, 05:28:43 AM
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How can someone who has over $870,000 worth of crypto across his metamask wallet be moved by a promise of eth, which will be around $8k +? This one is really on him, and he should not blame anyone for his mistake. Who knows, this could just be some cheap hackers who don't even know the amount he had in their wallet before they made their hacking attempts, because if they had known, I believe they could have used a higher amount in order to lure him in to the scam.
 
Just the fifth, which made him lose access to a fortune, well, I don't even think this will hurt him that much.

Apparently, the opposite is happening. That person who has only a couple of tens of dollars in his wallet tries to take every precaution so as not to lose his only coins, and the one who has thousands is so irresponsible with his funds. Knowing that our days on the Internet are like an ocean with sharks and so frivolously downloading software without checking it first implies such an ending sooner or later.
We often laugh at those who, without having many valuables, become paranoid about storage, although, if you look closely, it is always better to overdo it than to lose it like that and then blame yourself for inattention.
legendary
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September 16, 2023, 05:17:18 AM
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Cuban was unaware of the wallet movements when approached by DL News and later said, “Someone got me for 5 eth.”
INot sure why they bother to even mention 5 eth when in reality the real value was in other tokens?

“I went on MetaMask for the first time in months. They must have been watching,” he told DL News.
What is he talking about? Why do he think anyone was watching him? Sounds like he has fell for some generic hack and likely the hacker didn't even know who owned the wallet, but drained the wallet via bot. The fact that hacker needed to move 0.1 eth back to move other tokens out speaks for some automatic wallet hack.

How can someone who has over $870,000 worth of crypto across his metamask wallet be moved by a promise of eth, which will be around $8k +? This one is really on him, and he should not blame anyone for his mistake. Who knows, this could just be some cheap hackers who don't even know the amount he had in their wallet before they made their hacking attempts, because if they had known, I believe they could have used a higher amount in order to lure him in to the scam.
They stolen 5 eth from him among the other tokens that were way more valuable, he wasn't lured in for promise of 5 eth, at least from what i can tell from the article and etherscan.
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September 16, 2023, 03:42:05 AM
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I wonder how Cuban's wallet could have been hacked. I don't know if it's because the hacker is very professional or because he's lucky. But after I read the link I found out that Cuban was likely hacked via a fake metamask extension.

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Many fraudsters create fake MetaMask extensions or applications, tricking users into providing their private keys or seed phrases. Once these malicious actors gain access, they can easily drain users’ cryptocurrency wallets.

Maybe it was human error that Cuban was experiencing. I don't know but I don't think this will affect his wealth much.
hero member
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September 16, 2023, 12:40:09 AM
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How can someone who has over $870,000 worth of crypto across his metamask wallet be moved by a promise of eth, which will be around $8k +? This one is really on him, and he should not blame anyone for his mistake. Who knows, this could just be some cheap hackers who don't even know the amount he had in their wallet before they made their hacking attempts, because if they had known, I believe they could have used a higher amount in order to lure him in to the scam.
 
Just the fifth, which made him lose access to a fortune, well, I don't even think this will hurt him that much.
legendary
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September 15, 2023, 11:09:09 PM
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"I’m pretty sure I downloaded a version of MetaMask with some shit in it,”

“MetaMask crashed a couple times. I just stopped. Then you emailed me. So I locked my NFTs on OpenSea. Transferred all my Polygon in the account,

“Since I was only working with the account that got hacked, none of my others gave up anything,”

Indeed we can't know for sure what is the root cause of the hack with only those kinds of details. We might be able to speculate that it may be due to a malicious or unofficial MetaMask, but due to incomplete information, what's confusing is his last statement where only one account got hacked. Supposedly, if the extension or application itself is malicious, all the accounts on the same phrase should be vulnerable.
legendary
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September 15, 2023, 09:47:44 PM
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It was not clear how he was hacked, however, he mentioned that the hackers got him for 5 ETH and he has not used the wallet for 160 days. But when he began to use it, his Metamask was drained to zero. Someone might have promised him a 5 ETH profit and what occurred was a $870,000 surprise hehehe.

The hackers are unknown but I would not be shocked if they blame the Lazarus group again hehehehee.



Mark Cuban, billionaire entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, confirmed to DL News that he has lost approximately $870,000 to a crypto scam late on Friday.

The sudden movements in a wallet marked on blockchain explorer EtherScan as “Mark Cuban 2″ were first spotted by pseudonymous on-chain sleuth WazzCrypto.

Cuban was unaware of the wallet movements when approached by DL News and later said, “Someone got me for 5 eth.”

“I went on MetaMask for the first time in months. They must have been watching,” he told DL News.

Cuban’s losses extended beyond 5 Ether, worth about $9,000 at current prices. Altogether, he was set back by around $870,000 across 10 cryptocurrencies.


Read in full https://www.dlnews.com/articles/people-culture/mark-cuban-loses-870k-to-a-crypto-scam/
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