Remelia’s founder claims he was hacked after moving from Ether, NFTs.
Krishna Okhandiyar, the founder of Remelia and Milady, popularly known as Charlotte Fang, is said to have been hacked following the transfer of large amounts of Ether and NFTs to a wallet engaged in asset clearing.
The incident first drew attention to Dumpster DAO, an X user who shared a clear screenshot of Okhandyar's “leaked” link with an address that received assets from wallets linked to Remilia.
Remilia is the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) behind Milady Maker NFT. According to Fang's announcement, the DAO, an experimental financial art project created in April 2023, has seen its revenue hit by Bonkler.
Blockchain records indicate that the address transferred several Milady-linked NFTs, including staked NFTx, and $1 million worth of Ether to another address. Currently, the address holds nearly $1 million in Ether and various other tokens as of this writing.
While the exact method of the alleged hack is unclear, blockchain security company PeckShield pointed to an earlier transaction from Remelia's Treasury wallet to the wallet caught in the leak, as detailed in a post on X.
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In September 2023, Charlotte Fang took to the X social platform (formerly Twitter) to announce that a developer in the Milady ecosystem had successfully transferred a $1 million payout from Remilia Corporation. According to Fang, the attacker was able to take three X accounts, including MiladyMaker and ReMillionaire, while Remiliacorp was locked down.
Launched in 2021, Milady is a collection of 10,000 anime profile picture NFTs designed by Fang. In May 2023, Milady NFTs were officially endorsed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who posted a meme using images from his collection of Milady NFTs. The move triggered a quick spike in Milady's NFT floor price, which subsequently rose from 3.8 Ether (ETH) to 7.8 ETH.
Hackers and exploits are a growing concern in the crypto industry, especially for DeFi applications. In the year According to a December 28 report by Immunefi, $1.8 billion will be lost to crypto hackers and fraudsters in 2023, of which 17% can be attributed to the North Korean Lazar group. In 10 single incidents, hacking accounted for more than $65 million (97.54%) of the funds stolen in February 2024.
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