Solana’s leading cross-chain NFT platform Magic Eden announced on Twitter that one of the third-party picture service providers had been compromised, causing certain questionable images to be displayed in place of users’ NFTs.
The announcement came after community members complained of witnessing images and stills from the TV series “The Big Bang Theory,” as well as risqué content on the platform over the past day instead of the NFTs they tried to view.
According to reports, the Solana NFT giant attempted to fix the issue within an hour. Still, some of the racy images remained.
Magic Eden’s team released a statement assuring that users’ NFTs were not affected and asked to refresh their web browsers.
“Your NFTs are safe and Magic Eden has not been hacked. Make sure you do a hard refresh on your browser to fix it”.
According to a spokesman, Magic Eden does not think that it was deliberately targeted by the third-party vendor attack, which the NFT marketplace believes also affected other websites. Due to security concerns, it would not reveal the name of the third-party vendor.
Solana NFT Marketplace Went Multi-Chain In 2022
One NFT enthusiast drew attention to hosting on-chain metadata on centralized servers and said preference should be for decentralized hosting,”….imagine u pay 100E for art and it gets changed to porn”, he quipped.
There have been instances in the past where actual NFT artwork was housed on centralized web servers, which can lead to issues in the event that a server goes down.
However, in the latest case, it seems that the NFTs themselves were not harmed and that only the Magic Eden website itself was disrupted as a result of an attack on an outside service provider.
That said, the NFT platform went multi-chain by integrating Ethereum-based NFTs into its previously Solana-only platform last year.
The marketplace said it aims to provide “go-to-market” benefits for Ethereum NFT creators as it does for its Solana users, including its popular minting toolkit, whitelisting tools, and marketing support.
Following the FTX collapse, the Solana ecosystem has witnessed the departure of two leading NFT projects. But, Austin Federa, head of strategy and communications at the Solana Foundation recently said the network has seen an increase in on-chain activity despite the catastrophic event.