The NFT market, Magic Eden claimed that its third-party image hosting provider was to blame for the problem and reassured consumers that their NFTs are secure.

After a wave of pornographic photos flooded its site on January 3, the nonfungible token (NFT) exchange Magic Eden had to reassure users that their NFTs “is secure.”

The Solana-based NFT marketplace tweeted on January 3 that the “unsavory photos” were the consequence of its third-party image hosting provider being “compromised,” not that it had been “hacked.”

Magic Eden users reported that accessing a collection’s page occasionally resulted in a pornographic image flashing in place of the NSFW NFT thumbnail on January 3.

Yo @MagicEden wtf is this pic.twitter.com/Xums9EZtm6

— Fede (@fedeonekenoby) January 3, 2023

Others said they instead saw an image from the comedy television program The Big Bang Theory.

Anyone else notice how rapidly the Big Bang Theory cast members pack their equipment on Magic Eden? “WTH did I just see,” tweeted @Yaboibeclownin.

Uhhhhhh https://t.co/VT2m8fBrPh pic.twitter.com/NEftIkywHu

— Clôwn (@Yaboibeclownin) January 3, 2023

Users were encouraged by Magic Eden to “hard refresh” their browsers to resolve the problem.

Clearing the browser’s cache and making it reload the most current copy of the page are two usual steps in a hard refresh.

Hey guys our image provider, a 3rd party service we use to cache images, was compromised. Your NFTs are safe and Magic Eden has not been hacked. Unfortunately you might've seen some um, unsavory images. Make sure you do a hard refresh on your browser to fix it.

— Magic Eden 🪄 (@MagicEden) January 3, 2023

The reported photos have not been displayed on the platform during testing. Therefore the problem has been fixed as of this writing.

With a 30-day trading volume of $74.65 million, The website is the third-biggest NFT marketplace overall and the largest Solana-based NFT marketplace, after OpenSea and Blur, according to DappRadar.