IMPORTANT POINTS:
- Mark Cuban suffers the theft of $870,000 in crypto assets from his MetaMask wallet.
- Among the digital assets stolen were Ethereum, Lido staked Ether, and SuperRare and Ethereum Name Service tokens.
- Following the hack, Cuban moved funds to Coinbase and secured his NFTs on OpenSea to avoid further losses.
Mark Cuban, the renowned businessman and tycoon, recently faced a severe blow in the world of cryptocurrencies. According to an exclusive report from DL News, Cuban’s digital wallet, MetaMask, was compromised, resulting in a loss of digital assets valued at approximately 870,000.
Among the crypto assets stolen from the businessman were recognized names such as Ethereum (ETH), Lido staked Ether (stETH), SuperRare (RARE) and Ethereum Name Service (ENS) tokens. In addition, the theft of several stablecoins was reported, the details of which were not specified.
These illicit transactions were initially detected by Wazz, an anonymous cryptocurrency researcher, who used Etherscan, the blockchain transaction tracker, to identify the irregularity.
In statements collected by DL News, Cuban expressed: “They stole 5 ETH from me. I hadn’t used MetaMask in months. They were surely lying in wait. “I think I installed a version of MetaMask that contained malware. ” The businessman apparently became aware of the hack when he accessed his account from his mobile device. The situation was unknown to him until the DL News team contacted him.
After receiving the alarming notice, Cuban took immediate measures to protect his assets. He chose to move funds to more secure platforms, choosing Coinbase, one of the most prominent exchanges in the United States, to safeguard his crypto assets.
Despite the magnitude of the attack, it was confirmed that the tycoon’s other accounts did not suffer malicious interventions. “After several failures on MetaMask, I quit. Then your email arrived and I decided to secure my NFTs in OpenSea and transferred my Polygon balance,” Cuban added when detailing his actions after his hack.
