QUADRIGA INITIATIVE
CRYPTO WATCHDOG & FRAUD RECOVERY PLATFORM
A COMMUNITY-BASED, NOT-FOR-PROFIT
UNKNOWN
OCTOBER 2024
GLOBAL
LEGO HOMEPAGE
DESCRIPTION OF EVENTS
"In March 2021, the toy manufacturer’s X account hinted it may have been moving into the nonfungible token space when it hashtagged “#NFT” in a 14-second clip of a 3D LEGO brick rotating in space. However, the post was removed soon after.
LEGO Group’s holding company KIRKBI did, however, invest $1 billion in video game publisher Epic Games to accelerate its Metaverse plans in April 2022."
"Our new LEGO Coin is officially out! Buy the new LEGO Coin today and unlock secret rewards!"
"According to a report by Cointelegraph, the homepage of toy manufacturer LEGO Group was hacked on October 5th local time, briefly displaying a "LEGO Coin" token scam. The fraudulent token was present on the LEGO Group's website for approximately 75 minutes before being removed."
"Toy manufacturer LEGO Group has reportedly removed a "LEGO Coin" token scam that briefly appeared on its homepage after being hacked on Oct. 5, reports state.
X user and LEGO enthusiast “ZTBricks” was among the first to spot the scam, which promised “secret rewards” to those who bought LEGO Coin, several screenshots on X show"
"Hey @LEGO_Group someone popped your site and changed the main page! It directs to a crypto site to an account that is almost definitely not you guys!"
"On 5 October 2024 (October 4 evening in the US), an unauthorised banner briefly appeared on LEGO.com. It was quickly removed, and the issue has been resolved. No user accounts have been compromised, and customers can continue shopping as usual. The cause has been identified and we are implementing measures to prevent this from happening again."
“The issue has been resolved. No user accounts have been compromised, and customers can continue shopping as usual.”
"Lego told Engadget that no user accounts were compromised and that it has identified the cause of the issue. It also said that it was implementing measures to prevent anything similar from happening again in the future. However, the company has declined to share details about that "cause" or the measures it's implementing."
On October 4th, the Lego homepage displayed an advertisement for a new cryptocurrency called the Lego coin. This was a scam coin, and was fairly obvious because the attackers didn't invest any time in creating a convincing landing page or trading history for their token, the Lego community was quick to announce it, and the Lego website had the update removed within an hour and a half. A few people fell for it with small investments, which are likely unrecoverable.
@ztbricks Twitter (Nov 5)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/lego-removes-crypto-token-scam-from-homepage (Nov 5)
@puppyluver01 Twitter (Nov 5)
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fz1n9oj1amusd1.jpeg%3Fwidth%3D1320%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D954c0b2cc212eb662f54df3fce53319a1df01171 (Nov 5)
LEGO Shop Hacked by Crypto Scam - The Brick Fan (Nov 5)
@SDraw_V Twitter (Nov 5)
@tormentalous Twitter (Nov 5)
@tormentalous Twitter (Nov 5)
https://old.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/1fwfp1z/legocom_hacked_by_crypto_scammers/?rdt=53595#lightbox (Nov 5)
