Vitalik Buterin, one of the founders of Ethereum, claimed that his X account (formerly Twitter) was compromised. According to the famous blockchain researcher ZACHXBT, the incident caused the victims to collectively lose more than $ 691,000 after switching to a malicious connection.Vitalik's father Dmitry Buterin announced in a post dated September 9 that his son's account had been hacked: the post to which he referred has since been deleted. This was posted on the account of Buterin, who claims to celebrate the arrival of Proto-Thanksgiving on Ethereum.A hacker shared a malicious link to a supposedly unreleased commemorative coin (NFT), convincing victims to tie up their wallets before ultimately stealing all their money.Therefore, tHis incident led Ethereum developer Bok Hu, known as Bokky Poobah in X, to claim that he was damaged in the CryptoPunk NFT collection. Warning! I JUST LOST A COUPLE OF BUMS! NO INTERACTION! pic.twitter.com/lS4VvlHdVaAt at the time of publication, the prevailing minimum price of NFT Cryptopunk is 46.99 ether (ETH), which is roughly equivalent to $76,837. The Blockchain Capital X account, which was hacked to promote the scam with Zachxbt tokens, actively informed its 438,200 subscribers about the hacker's actions. He recently shared that the most valuable NFT stolen to date, CryptoPunk # 3983, cost 153.62 Eth, which is about $ 250,543.Update: The leak was $691k (33% more at the fundraising address).Twitter.cThe user om / AVİShqDlMUA, alias Satoshi 767 on X, stated that Buterin may not have implemented sufficient security measures for the X account.I hate to be the one to say this, but Vitali needs to answer for his poor performance and compensate for the damage caused to the victims, he said, before implying that he believes Buterin's negligence led to the attack. However, ZachXBT disputed these accusations, saying that Buterin's high status makes him susceptible to the X account. Various forms of hacking attempts: You don't know yet whether this is a SIM replacement or not. Vitalik is a big enough target to pay an insider or use the panel, zachxbt said.Magazine: How to protect your cryptocurrency in a volatile Sunday: Bitcoin supporters and experts weigh in