At least 54 apes were stolen in BAYC Instagram hack

Hackers got power of BAYC’s Instagram relationship connected April 25 and reportedly stole 24 Bored Apes and 30 Mutant Apes, valued astatine astir $13.7 million. 

Scammers created a station mentioning the upcoming BAYC metaverse launch, which was acceptable for  April 30. The station announced a onshore airdrop and requested users to link their addresses.

Damn the BAYC Instagram hacker stole 4 BAYC, 7 MAYC, 3 BAKC, 1 CloneX, & much ( 91 NFTs successful total)

Hacker Address:https://t.co/0ngJ4SKV4G pic.twitter.com/9U2OGPKMmP

— zachxbt (@zachxbt) April 25, 2022

Hackers transferred Bored Ape and Mutant Ape NFTs successful the connected wallets to a caller wallet address. Roughly 54 apes were stolen, based connected the opensea transfers

‘News astir the hack archetypal surfaced connected societal media and Reddit, aft which the authoritative BAYC relationship confirmed it.

BAYC said its Instagram had been hacked and it volition suspend minting for a day.

🚨There is nary mint going connected today. It looks similar BAYC Instagram was hacked. Do not mint anything, click links, oregon nexus your wallet to anything.

— Bored Ape Yacht Club (@BoredApeYC) April 25, 2022

Earlier attacks connected BAYC holders

BAYC assemblage has go a predominant people for scammers successful caller months.

On April 1, BAYC’s Discord server was hacked. The hacker utilized April Fools to get attraction and managed to station malicious minting links. The proprietor of MAYC #8662, Taiwanese popular superstar Jay Chou, fell prey to the onslaught and mislaid his NFT, valued astatine $550 thousand.

Four days later, connected April 5, a pseudonymous ape holder mislaid 3 of his NFTs to a fake verification scam. They transferred their BAYC#1584, MAYC #13168, and MAYC#13169 to person their verified versions of adjacent value. The attacker sent fake pictures and sold the authentic NFTs for 5% beneath their level price. In December 2021, a bored ape NFT collector fell for a phishing scam and mislaid 8 Bored Ape and 7 Mutant Ape NFTs by clicking connected a phishing declaration disguised arsenic a genuine NFT dApp. The mislaid apes were valued astatine astir $2.2 million.