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    <p>Billionaire investor <a rel="dofollow" title="Mark Cuban" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/mark-cuban.html">Mark Cuban</a> fell victim to a phishing attack on Saturday after reportedly downloading a fake MetaMask application that caused him to lose almost $900,000 in <a rel="dofollow" title="crypto" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/crypto.html">crypto</a> assets.&nbsp;</p> 
    <p>Cuban was unaware of the <a rel="dofollow" title="Hack" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/hack.html">Hack</a> until DLNews approached him. He told the outlet, “I’m pretty sure I downloaded a version of MetaMask with some sh*t in it.”</p> 
    <p>“MetaMask crashed a couple times. I just stopped,” Cuban explained. “Then you [DL News] emailed me. So I locked my NFTs on OpenSea. Transferred all my Polygon in the account.”&nbsp;</p> 
    <p>His wallet was previously inactive for five months. He reportedly saved himself $2.5 million worth of Polygon tokens when he moved them to a Coinbase address.&nbsp;</p> 
    <p>“I went on MetaMask for the first time in months,” Cuban said. “They must have been watching.”</p> 
    <p>Crypto sleuth WazzCrypto was the first on X (formally Twitter) to first notice that $870,000 of staked ETH (stETH), Tether USD (USDT), Matic tokens (MATIC), Rarible (RARI), USD Coin (USDC), and various Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domains had all been transferred from Cuban’s wallet.&nbsp;</p> 
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       <p lang="en" dir="ltr">My thesis above was confirmed, he was indeed hacked and managed to save his bag on Matic <br><br>thx @eking0x <br><br>can't believe I was the 1st to report this lolhttps://t.co/36Mx0hsTXF pic.twitter.com/CkhVWuTGME</p>— Wazz (@WazzCrypto) September 16, 2023
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    <p><em>Read more: How billionaire <a rel="dofollow" title="Mark Cuban" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/mark-cuban.html">Mark Cuban</a> got revenge on DeFi with KlimaDAO</em></p> 
    <p>Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin was also the victim of a phishing attack this month. He lost around $691,000 worth of <a rel="dofollow" title="crypto" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/crypto.html">crypto</a> assets, mainly consisting of NFTs.</p> 
    <p>Another phishing attack involving Retool and Fortress Trust occurred just last week. The hacker tricked a Retool employee into clicking a malicious link and giving up their multi-factor authentication codes through the use of a deepfake voice and information on his place of work to mimic his employees. $15 million in crypto was lost.&nbsp;</p> 
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<p>Source: <a rel="dofollow" target="_blank" href="https://thebittimes.com/mark-cuban-narrowly-avoids-2-5m-loss-in-900k-crypto-hack-tbt63070.html">https://thebittimes.com/mark-cuban-narrowly-avoids-2-5m-loss-in-900k-crypto-hack-tbt63070.html</a></p>

Mark Cuban narrowly avoids $2.5M loss in $900K crypto hack

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