ALT OpenSea users panic as at least $1.7 million in NFTs are stolenPanic erupted on February 19 as users began seeing their wallets emptied of NFTs. Early explanations blamed a new contract that OpenSea had rolled out, or an airdrop from a new NFT marketplace called X2Y2, though it later appeared that the exploiter may have successfully phished users with emails relating to OpenSea's planned migration. People urged NFT owners to revoke permissions for both the OpenSea contract and for X2Y2 until more was known, although one of the most popular websites helping people do so went down shortly after from the high traffic. An hour and a half after users began to report missing NFTs, OpenSea finally acknowledged the issue. They tweeted that they were "actively investigating rumors of an exploit associated with OpenSea related smart contracts", and wrote that they believed it was a phishing attack coming from outside of OpenSea, rather than an issue with their contract. So far it appears that mo
