Bankr Developer's Twitter Account Hacked, Leaks Personal Info

The developer behind the Bankr platform has been in the news after their Twitter account was compromised. Sean Papanikolas, who founded Bankr, had his Bankr X account hacked, allowing a hacker to access his personal information and leak his real name.

Papanikolas also used the compromised account to promote Ethereum Improvement Proposal 2309 (EIP-2309), which is an optional extension for ERC-721 standardizing the 'ConsecutiveTransfer' event. This allows for efficient creation, transfer, or destruction of sequentially numbered NFTs in a single transaction.

Before founding Bankr, Papanikolas worked as a senior software engineer at Payward, the parent company of an exchange, from 2021 to 2022 and briefly served as a senior software engineer at OpenSea in 2023.