Bored Ape Yacht Club Instagram hackers reportedly stole millions in NFTs Ape DAO \/ MetaThe Bored Ape Yacht Club\u2019s Instagram account was hacked with over millions of dollars in NFT reportedly stolen after a phishing link lured users to a scam. After the breach, the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) confirmed the hack on Twitter and warned its followers not to interact with the profile. \u201cThere is no mint going on today,\u201d the company said on Twitter. \u201cIt looks like BAYC Instagram was hacked. Do not mint anything, click links, or link your wallet to anything.\u201d It seems as though a few items still got transferred out of people\u2019s wallets during the hack which were valued over a million dollars combined, as BAYC sought to regain control of its accounts shortly after the hack. Numerous NFT discords and the @BoredApeYC instagram was hacked, promising an airdrop. Nearly $14 million in Bored Ape NFTs have been lost already. pic.twitter.com\/u6MTnEWYXm \u2014 unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) April 25, 2022 Members were reportedly sent a link to a message indicating that a new giveaway, or \u2018airdrop,\u2019 was imminent. It urged users to link their MetaMask wallets before being able to collect any tokens. The hack quickly made waves on social media sites as images were shared of numerous items being transferred during the security breach. Read more: Top 10 most expensive NFTs ever sold – The company described how they responded to the hack once they discovered that their Instagram had been hacked. \u201cImmediately upon discovering the hack, we alerted our community, removed links to the compromised IG account from our platforms and attempted to recover the account,\u201d they said. \u201cAt the time of the hack, two-factor authentication was enabled and security surrounding the IG account followed best practices. We\u2019ve regained control of the account, and are investigating how the hacker gained access with IG\u2019s team.\u201d At the time of the hack, two-factor authentication was enabled and security surrounding the IG account followed best practices. We\u2019ve regained control of the account, and are investigating how the hacker gained access with IG\u2019s team. \u2014 Bored Ape Yacht Club \ud83c\udf4c (@BoredApeYC) April 25, 2022 Tokens that were stolen ranged from values of 50 Ethereum (ETH) to over 100 ETH each, making the haul easily worth millions to NFT enthusiasts. BAYC owners Yuga Labs want those who\u2019ve been affected by or have knowledge on the hack to connect with them as they navigate the fallout of the scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bored Ape Yacht Club Instagram hackers reportedly stole millions in NFTs Ape DAO \/ MetaThe Bored Ape Yacht Club\u2019s Instagram account was hacked with over millions of dollars in NFT reportedly stolen after a phishing link lured users to a scam. After the breach, the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) confirmed the hack on Twitter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}