Magic Eden, a non-fungible (NFT) marketplace, had to assure users that their NFTs were “safe” after a trove of pornographic images littered its platform on January 3.
In a January 3 tweet, the Solana-based NFT marketplace informed its users that it “wasn’t hacked” and that the “hateful images” were the result of the third-party image hosting provider being “hacked.”
According to Jan. 3 tweets from Magic Eden users, loading the group page would sometimes cause a porn image to be temporarily flashed instead of the NFT thumbnail.
Others reported watching a still of the comedy TV series The Big Bang Theory instead.
“Does anyone else see the characters from the Big Bang Theory series really quickly loading their items into Magic Eden? WTH did you just watch,” @Yaboibeclownin tweeted.
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Magic Eden advised users that doing a “hard refresh” of the browser should fix the issue.
A hard refresh usually involves clearing the browser’s cache and forcing it to reload the latest version of the page.
At the time of writing, the issue appears to have been fixed as the reported images did not appear on the platform when testing.
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According to DappRadar, Magic Eden is the largest Solana-based NFT market and the third largest NFT market, with a 30-day trading volume of $74.65 million, behind OpenSea and Blur.
