On Tuesday, an NFT (non-fungible token) marketplace providing licensed virtual collectibles, underwent an exploit by which the hacker illegitimately took off its in-app tokens in millions. The venue has earned substantial popularity among the chief brands like Coca-Cola, Pixar, and Marvel, which have selected Veve to be their formal collaborator for launch.

Veve, in a formal Twitter post that was shared on Wednesday, admitted the happening of the exploit on the venue and stated that the hackers turned out to be successful in obtaining a considerable number of gems unlawfully. The app-based NFT venue has closed the marketplace as well as the gems purchase facility till the completion of the investigation. The in-app tokens of VeVe are called gems which are utilized by the consumers to be exchanged for collectibles across the market.

The initial reports indicate that the hackers at the back of the exploit were successful in minting several million gems with having nothing to be paid in return as they exploited a glitch present in the purchase structure. One of the customers noted that the friend thereof coincidently bought gens by utilizing an outdated credit card even then the transaction was done. The venue has additionally prohibited many consumer accounts having reportedly attempted to purchase the economic gems through fraudulent accounts.

Though the venue did not reveal the precise sum of the gems having been exploited, a consumer on Twitter asserted that the amount might be in millions and it could count to be the largest theft on the forum. The respective user additionally shared the series of events that took place during the exploit, starting from the registration of VeVe for the biggest 3-day purchase of the in-app gems.

After that, a crash was experienced in the token’s price at nearly 50% to 0.25 (which was previously 0.5), leading to the start of the maintenance of the marketplace. The exploits of the gems have been resulted due to another cause which counts to be a decrease in the platform’s listed NFTs. Another client reported the plunge of the value of the NFT by up to 80% just in a week following the sharing of a Twitter post on the behalf of Veve on the formal account thereof. The customer expressed to be quite unpleased with the course of events.