While in control of Beeple’s account, the hackers announced a surprise mint—a promotional campaign where artists create and sell limited-run non-fungible tokens representing a piece of art on top of blockchains such as Ethereum—for a collection in collaboration with Louis Vuitton and “extra” art that Beeple never released before. The scam gathered around $270,000 in ETH and stole 45 NFTs worth around $165,000, according to Harry.eth, who works in cybersecurity for the crypto wallet company MetaMask.

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