Another Celebrity’s Twitter Hacked by Metaverse Scammer

• Scott Hartley’s account got hacked by a fake OthersideMeta’s hacker.
• PeckShieldAlert has warned to beware of the phishing and look alike NFT sites.

Scott Hartley’s Twitter account was hacked by the NFT scammers who portrayed fake OthersideMeta’s scheme. Scott Hartley is a venture capitalist, who was also previously employed in major silicon valley firms such as Google and Facebook.

The scammers renamed Scott’s account to OthersideMeta & phishing portal’s link was attached to the profile. The PeckShieldAlert, a blockchain security firm, also mentioned and warned about the account hack.

Scammers, hacking tech celebrities, and government-related personalities’ social media profiles are not new. And we can also see an increase in these cases in recent times. Apart from this, the antisocial geeks also create phishing sites that are very similar to the original sites and try to lure the users.

Deceptive OthersideMeta’s Site

Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), the prominent NFT collection, launched its metaverse program at the start of this year. And the sales were over within the first few hours of the launch, parallelly bringing up a problem to the Ethereum and BAYC partnership.

During the sales, the gas fees skyrocketed to the next level and the users outside the metaverse sales were also suffering parallelly. This triggered the BAYC to develop their blockchain but the proposal got fewer votes from the stakeholders, finally making them continue on the same platform.

The phishing site now live has the motto to steal the credential details and virtual assets from the users, as per the Peckshield report, and has advised people to be aware of this site. They have also mentioned that this hacker has already stolen 4 NFTs and transferred them to the specific account.

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