After several pornographic photos flooded Magic Eden’s platform on Jan. 3, the service had to reassure consumers that their NFTs are safe.
A pornographic image would occasionally briefly show in place of the NFT thumbnail when accessing a collection’s page, according to tweets from Magic Eden users on Jan. 3. Others claimed to have instead seen a TV show still from the comedy The Big Bang Theory.
Magic Eden tells users NFTs are safe
The Solana-based NFT marketplace informed its users in a tweet on the same day that the “unsavory images” were the effect of a “compromised” third-party image hosting service, not that it had been “hacked.”
Users were encouraged by Magic Eden to “hard refresh” their browsers in order to resolve the problem. Clearing the browser’s cache and making it reload the most recent copy of the page are two usual steps in a hard refresh.
With a 30-day trading volume of $74.65 million, Magic Eden is the third-biggest NFT marketplace overall and the largest Solana-based NFT marketplace, behind OpenSea and Blur, according to DappRadar.
The reported images have not been displayed on the platform during testing, therefore it looks like the problem has been fixed as of this writing.