The Bored Ape Yacht Club has reportedly been hacked again by a phishing scam that allowed thieves to steal more than a quarter of a million dollars in NFTs.
The account of the company and one of the managers of Otherside Metaverse was hacked this week, giving hackers access to their account, CoinGape mentioned.
After gaining access, the fraudsters sent phishing links displayed as “exclusive gifts” to NFT fans and stole 145 Ethereums worth about $ 257,515.65.
That was just over a month after the group lost $ 3 million from another group of fraudsters.
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Pictured is a phishing scam sent to members of the Bored Ape Yacht Club and other Metaverse discord groups.
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The fraud was reportedly committed with about 145 Ethereum, or about $ 257,515.65.
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The Bored Ape Yacht Club focuses on buying and selling Bored Ape NFTs (pictured is a previously sold one). Thieves targeted the group last month and stole $ 3 million
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Data from PeckShield blockchain security company revealed that a total of 32 NFTs had been stolen by Saturday, including the Bored Ape Yacht Club token, two Mutant Apes NFTs, five other NFTs and one Bored Ape Kennel Club token during an attack. Phishing.
NFTs or irreplaceable tokens are bitcoin-like digital tokens that act as a certificate of ownership and live in the blockchain.
The scam was allegedly sent through a manager account with a username BorisVagner who lured members of the discord groups with free codes.
The hack took place more than a month after the NDP’s biggest player, the Bored Ape Yacht Club, suffered a major hack in April, knocking out four bored monkeys and a bunch of other NFTs worth a total of $ 3 million.
Seth Green made an animated show featuring a cartoon character Bored Ape at a real Manhattan bar in White Horse Tavern, West Village.
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The hackers targeted the group’s Instagram account and sent phishing links to members who unknowingly clicked on the posts and lost valuable NFT items. guardian mentioned.
Jacke Moore, a global cyber security consultant, said that while Instagram attacks are nothing new, the close community of Bored Ape NFTs could allow phishing scams to wreak havoc.
“This acquisition had huge consequences and led to a mass theft of digital assets,” Moore told the Guardian about the April hack.
“Like what happens when art is stolen, there will be questions about how they will be able to sell these devices now, but there are still problems with NFTs, and users need to be very careful about what is still going on. with very new technology. ”
Confidence in the Boared Ape Yacht Club continued to tremble after actor Seth Green went into another scam to steal his copyrighted Bored Ape NFT set, which will be used in an upcoming TV show.
The 48-year-old actor used a cartoon version of the NFT, Fed Simian, in his new cartoon, White Horse Tavern.
He has a real bar in Manhattan’s West Village and envisions one of the bartenders as Fred Simian as a member of an NFT group called the Bored Ape Yacht Club.
The character purchased by Green is animated and interacts with real actors on the 1880 tape.
Now, however, production of the series has stopped after the protagonist has been “kidnapped”.
Green announced on May 17 that the character had been stolen. He demanded his return on social media and also insisted that he continue to be able to stream the show because Fred Simient was stolen and not subject to copyright rules.
But Fred was sold on the basis of cryptocurrency – a completely unregulated market – which means the new anonymous owner of the NDP could exercise copyright if a similar image of Fred is broadcast without permission.
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