The popular NFT collection Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), whose Instagram page was hacked last April and lost $2.8 million, faces a similar situation again. left. Sharing a new announcement on Twitter, BAYC confirmed that Discord servers were attacked by phishing and that one Bored Ape Yacht NFT worth $360,000 and two Mutant Ape tokens were stolen.
Losses exceeded 14 billion
According to reports, the attackers who managed to hijack the Discord account of Boris Vagner, one of the developers of Bored Ape Yacht Club, as well as Yuga Labs’ community manager, were able to access the official BAYC account with this account. He carried out the attack by sharing links to his Discord channel and the metaverse project Otherside.
Base price of Bored Ape NFTs hit record high
In addition to Bored Ape Yacht Club, who said that they were investigating the incident and that the affected people should contact them, Twitter user NFTherder, who followed the stolen funds to four separate wallets, was the first to notice the attack. According to the sources, we can say that NFT theft has become an alarming trend recently, while the losses in fraud and theft in the decentralized finance field exceeded 14 billion in 2021.
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