Peer-to-peer trading platform nft Trader suffered a security breach on December 16, allowing hackers to steal millions of dollars in non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
nft Trader confirmed the incident on
Among the stolen NFTs were at least 13 Mutant Ape Yacht Club tokens and 37 Bored Ape tokens, as well as VeeFriends and World of Women NFTs, representing losses of almost $3 million. according to revoke.cash.
The attack was followed by rumors and misinformation on social media platforms. Additionally, it is still unclear how many hackers took advantage of the security flaw. In a public message, one of the attackers attributed the original exploit to another user. “I came here to collect residual trash,” they wrote, requesting ransom payments to return the NFTs.
“At first, as always, I came here to collect residual garbage. At first I thought I could only get TOKEN, but finally I found out that I could also get nft. (…) I am a good person, the value of these nft is enough to that a person lives a free life, but that doesn't matter to me. I prefer to pick up leftover garbage,” said one of the attackers.
The attacker then claimed to have limited technical skills and proposed victims pay a 10% reward in Ether (eth) in exchange for their NFTs. “My technical skills are limited, I can't get all the affected nfts at once and it's costing me a lot of energy and time. (…) If you want to get the nft monkey back, then you have to pay me a reward, which is what I deserve” , they wrote.
In another unusual development, one of the victims said the attacker returned a rare nft along with 31 eth, worth almost $70,680 at the time of writing. “And now the hacker just sent me 31 eth? What is happening in the world? Is this real life?” said the victim. wrote in X.
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