IT hackers infiltrate crypto projects, steal $1 million

June 28, 2025

, By Cointelegraph

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Hackers posing as legitimate information technology (IT) workers who have infiltrated Web3 projects have stolen roughly $1 million in crypto during the past week, according to onchain investigator and cybersecurity analyst ZackXBT.

Several entities were impacted including Favrr, a Web3 fan-token marketplace, non-fungible token (NFT) projects Replicandy and ChainSaw, along with other teams the onchain sleuth did not name in his Friday X post.

The hackers exploited the minting mechanism for the NFT projects, minting mass quantities of NFTs, selling…

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IT hackers infiltrate crypto projects, steal $1 million

June 28, 2025

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Hackers posing as legitimate information technology (IT) workers who have infiltrated Web3 projects have stolen roughly $1 million in crypto during the past week, according to onchain investigator and cybersecurity analyst ZackXBT.

Several entities were impacted including Favrr, a Web3 fan-token marketplace, non-fungible token (NFT) projects Replicandy and ChainSaw, along with other teams the onchain sleuth did not name in his Friday X post.

The hackers exploited the minting mechanism for the NFT projects, minting mass quantities of NFTs, selling…

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