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NFTs worth $100 million stolen in past year, Elliptic says

Jimmy Khan

Aug 25, 2022 14:34

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According to blockchain research company Elliptic, over $100 million worth of non-fungible tokens were stolen in the year leading up to July, opening a new front in the hacking crisis facing cryptocurrency.


NFTs are assets built on the blockchain that represent digital data including text, video, and picture files.


Cryptocurrency-rich speculators invested billions on the assets in 2021, expecting to benefit as prices increased. However, NFT pricing and sales volumes have fallen since the collapse in cryptocurrency prices in May and June of this year.


Despite the market's collapse, scams are still commonplace, with the biggest amount of NFTs reported stolen ever in July, according to a research by London-based Elliptic.


According to the report, social media security breaches would be responsible for 23% of NFT thefts in 2022.


According to Elliptic, thieves made an average of $300,000 each fraud. Given that not all offenses are made public, the actual number of NFT thefts is probably far greater, it was added.


The crypto business has long been plagued by hacks and frauds, and authorities all around the globe are becoming more worried about how crypto assets are being used in cybercrime.


Elliptic estimated that just $8 million was being laundered using NFT-based platforms. However, Elliptic said that services like so-called cryptocurrency mixers, which are intended to conceal the source of the money, provided roughly $329 million of the funds in the NFT market.


Before it was banned by the United States this month, Elliptic said that one such mixer, Tornado Cash, was used to launder just over half of the money gained via NFT schemes.


Using the $540 million heist in April that U.S. authorities have connected to North Korea's Lazarus Group as an example, Elliptic said that "there is a rising danger to NFT-based services from sanctioned groups and state-sponsored vulnerabilities."

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