Drift hacker-linked address mints North Korean propaganda NFT to Circle CEO

An address linked to the recent hack of Solana's Drift Protocol has minted a North Korean propaganda-themed NFT to the public wallet of Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire, according to on-chain analyst ZachXBT. The address, dprk.arc, operating on Circle's Layer 1 chain Arc, sent the NFT to Allaire's jerallaire.arc address. On the blockchain, anyone can send a newly created NFT to a public address, effectively assigning ownership without the recipient's consent. The dprk.arc address was previously identified as having received approximately $80 million in USDC via a bridge from the Drift Protocol attacker's wallet.