{"id":32442,"date":"2022-01-15T03:30:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T03:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=32442"},"modified":"2022-01-15T03:30:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T03:30:22","slug":"hong-kong-buyers-of-nfts-are-ripe-targets-for-hackers-scammers-amid-growing-popularity-of-crypto-projects-dearth-of-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=32442","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong buyers of NFTs are ripe targets for hackers, scammers amid growing popularity of crypto projects, dearth of regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostAbout an hour before midnight on December 21, Hong Kong finance professional Jackson Leung turned on his personal computer and clicked on a link to obtain a non-fungible token (NFT) from the popular local project Monkey Kingdom.It did not take long, however, for Leung to realise that something was amiss. Instead of getting a newly minted NFT, the link sent money from his cryptocurrency wallet to an unfamiliar account bearing a name that starts with \u201cHuiY\u201d.\u201cI was in an absolute hurry to try to\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/policy\/article\/3163004\/hong-kong-buyers-nfts-are-ripe-targets-hackers-scammers-amid-growing?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostAbout an hour before midnight on December 21, Hong Kong finance professional Jackson Leung turned on his personal computer and clicked on a link&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":32443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32442"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}