NFT Marketplace flashes porn instead of monkey art

As the lid on NFTs has apparently crashed in recent months, NFT marketplace Magic Eden has been navigating a different issue – porn. After users alerted the marketplace that it had been flashing porn thumbnails instead of NFTs, Magic Eden realized something had gone wrong.

In accordance Coin Telegraph, when users on Magic Eden loaded a collection’s page, they would be greeted with images unrelated to NFTs. “You think this is funny @MagicEden,” tweeted user @Sauctin_Austin today, which uploaded a screenshot illustrates a collection with a random image of the show The Big Bang theory. “What the hell…”

Speaking of big bang theories, some users were also greeted by images of pornography instead of NFTs. While some the images were pixelated, others were completely NSFW. Despite this, Magic Eden says they have not been hacked, but that a third-party image buffering system has been tampered with.

“Hey guys our image provider, a third party service we use to cache images, was compromised,” tweeted the company earlier today. “Your NFTs are safe and Magic Eden has not been hacked. Unfortunately, you may have seen some creepy images. Make sure you do a hard update on your browser to fix it.”

Magic Eden and Chief Technology Officer Sidney Zhang did not immediately return Gizmodo’s request for further comment.

On top of this, today users started noticing an exploit on Magic Eden that allows users to upload unverified NFTs to another user’s verified collection. Magical Eden responded on Twitter says “Thanks to the community for alerting us that there was an issue where people could buy fake ABC NFTs. We’ve added multiple verification layers per collection to address the issue.”

However, after many users continued to report that the exploit was ongoing, the platform became issued an update:

Please refresh your browsers hard to ensure you only see verified collection items. We are monitoring the situation and will use this thread for updates. We fixed 2 issues: 1) fake NFTs listed on collection pages 2) tx of fake NFTs on activity tabs

Earlier today we fixed the root issue, but believe that users who did not hard load the browser were still seeing unverified NFTs on collection and activity pages. This is probably a situation that has affected fewer than 10 collections. We will do a public post mortem with more details.