Somebody just hacked Bored Ape Yacht Club’s instagram account and made a post trying to get people to connect their wallet to a malicious DAPP. A lot of people did so and now the attacker is stealing their valuable NFTs.
The attacker has so far stolen 4 BAYC and 6 MAYC NFTs, worth millions of dollars.
The scam was related to BAYC upcoming metaverse launch, which is set to be this saturday. There will be a landsale for the metaverse probably sometime this week, and the attacker used to situtation to make an announcement on the hacked instagram account to get people to connect their wallets.
You can follow the hackers wallet yourself on [Etherscan](
“The hacker has so far stolen 4 BAYCs and 6 MAYCs, worth 100s of millions of dollars”
With the current valuations, 100s millions usd seems like a bit of exageration
Sorry, but some of you guys behave like dicks. We can dislike NFTs or bored apes but laughing or telling NFTs are worthless when people lost something valuable to them is shitty no matter of everything. Not everyone is milionaire, if you would have one NFT bought for few hundreds dollars and worth now a lot how would you feel? Probably terribly. Have a little empathy.
Situation is definitely bad for victims and hope it will end well for them. And fuck those hackers.
To quote that guy on Twitter, I hope the victims immediately stop using those NFTs as profile pictures, since according to the blockchain they no longer own them.
A good measure to fight that scams and hacks is not having NFT. I’m testing this method and have 100% accuracy
🤣 🤣🤣
Hacker won’t gain anything really, the BAYC’s will be easily blacklisted from opensea and all major marketplaces and he’ll never be able to cashout
I have tried my best but I still can’t get my head around NFTs and why they are worth so much
I hope the holders took a screenshot just to be safe!
Oof, that’s pretty wild. Wonder how social engineering gets so far in the NFT world specifically.
If I read this without being familiar with crypto I would be like
“nah im not touching that shit”
But I have knowledge and I know that if you are atleast a little bit careful your chances of being scammed are slim
>valuable NFTs
Who is going to tell him?
Nice, NFTs are a shitty bubble and anyone throwing money on it for speculation deserves to get rekt.
awesome lol
Hacker won’t gain anything really, the BAYC’s will be easily blacklisted from opensea and all major marketplaces and he’ll never be able to cashout
Inside job. NFTs are worthless now. If they’re stolen, it’s the same as selling them for what you paid, if you’re insured.
Code is law so this is fine according to Vitalik Butterface
“Now you got nothing” *grins*
– Tony Soprano
Ppl talking about NFT and I still don’t understand whooooo the fuckkkkkkk are going to buy a fucking bored ape at 25,000 ETH…. If you don’t had a bidder your only buyer is mister floor price 🥴🥴🥴🤣🤣🤣
Sooo.. I’m not familiar with instagram but cant someone go there and warn them in the comments or something?
I agree I hate dishonest people.
Those NFTs are only worth what people are willing to pay.
Could easily show what NFTs they are and ask people not to ever pay for them, then they’ll have stolen exactly $0.
I’m sure they have backup copies of the jpegs
I’m selling NFT’s that are pixelated jpegs of the rarest tulips on the planet…opening bid is 400 ETH.
Elon has one….you need one too.
Where are the hackers going to sell those *valuable* NFTs?! I bet they hacked just to take a piss at the owners lol
Nice. Good riddance. Anything on the cloud can be fished out EVERYTHING except old tech like nuclear codes
Worth millions of USD?
What is this idiotic valuation and FUD?
Idk if I feel bad or delighted, that a shit coin NFT project is getting robbed?
“The attacker has so far stolen 4 BAYC and 6 MAYC NFTs, worth millions of dollars”
Eh, they might have sold for millions, but worth millions? LMAO
good news
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Ouch!!
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Crypto security awareness is bigger than crypto itself and needs to be taught all around the world.
This does bring a smile to my face.
How hard is it to enable 2 fa on Instagram?
Would a hardware wallet have saved the victims?
That’s terrible. The monkey NFT’s aren’t for me, but I can imagine the devastation of losing something worth so much. Hate scammers
> valuable NFTs.
LOL