RTFKT COO Nikhil Gopalani is starting the New Year with an empty crypto wallet.
RTFKT is the massively profitable next-gen crypto brand acquired by Nike in December 2021 that’s making waves in the digital wearable space and created content with artist Takashi Murakami. Gopalani lost his massive treasure trove of NFTs to a scammer in an apparent phishing attack Monday.
The wallet that appears to be linked to Gopalani has lost all its NFTs except for one: a Death Row Records NFT of the “Clone X Theme Song” worth about $59. Etherscan shows that only $0.11 of ETH remains in the wallet.
According to OpenSea data, the attacker used two wallets to drain well over $173,000 worth of NFTs from Gopalani’s wallet, including 19 CloneX NFTs worth over $138,000 combined, 18 RTKFT Space Pods (over $6,300 total), 17 Loot Pods ($6,200), 11 CryptoKicks ($3,000), 19 RTFKT Animus Eggs ($20,200), and more.
While it’s currently unclear exactly how the phishing attack occurred, a reply from RTFKT CTO Samuel Cardillo suggests that Gopalani may have accidentally provided confidential information to a hacker who was posing as an Apple representative.
(Reporting by Shikha Singh; Editing by Laxmikant Khanvilkar)
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