When hackers get the seed phrase, they have full access to the STEPN user's dashboard, allowing them to link their hijacked accounts to their own or "claim" a giveaway, according to Peckshield.

If consumers see anything odd with their accounts, Peckshield advises them to contact support as soon as possible. Some consumers indicated that they had encountered problems, that they had reported them to support, and that the problem had been remedied.

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STEPN, on the other hand, has yet to make an official statement on the subject. The phishing message appeared nearly 20 hours after the Web3 lifestyle app's AMA session on Twitter spaces ended. Peckshield is a well-known Twitter account that informs the bitcoin community of breaches and phishing schemes.

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Shiba Inu unveils burning portal

Shiba Inu (SHIB), a popular meme-coin initiative, has introduced a SHIB Burn Portal to reduce coin supply while allowing users to receive passive benefits.

According to the Shiba Inu team, the platform was designed to boost SHIB's scarcity and make it "one of the finest digital assets in the history of cryptocurrencies."

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Shiba Inu and Ryoshis Vision (RYOSHI), an Ethereum-based decentralized finance (DeFi) initiative that wants to assist the expansion of the SHIB eco-system, collaborated to establish the platform.

SHIB burners will be rewarded with two bonuses for their achievements. For starters, they assist in lowering the meme-coin's current quantity, thus rendering it more rare and expensive. Second, they get burntSHIB tokens in their Ethereum wallet, which pay holders a variable rate in RYOSHI rewards.

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On Monday, the team tweeted that "almost 8 BILLION $SHIB was burnt" on the platform in the first 24 hours of its launch.