VeeFriends and World of Women tokens were taken, along with at least 13 Mutant Ape Yacht Club and 37 Bored Ape tokens. Nearly $3 million has been lost. On December 16, a security breach occurred on the peer-to-peer trading platform NFT Trader, which gave hackers access to millions of dollars’ worth of nonfungible tokens (NFTs).
The attack, according to NFT Trader, targeted older smart contracts. Users were advised to revoke delegations to the following addresses: 0xc310e760778ecbca4c65b6c559874757a4c4ece0 and 0x13d8faF4A690f5AE52E2D2C52938d1167057B9af.
According to Revoke.cash, at least 13 Mutant Ape Yacht Club and 37 Bored Ape tokens, along with NFTs from VeeFriends and the World of Women, were among the stolen NFTs. Altogether, these losses totaled close to $3 million.
Rumours and false information started to circulate on social media sites after the hack. How many hackers took advantage of the security hole is also still unknown. One of the attackers claimed credit for the original exploit to a different user in a public message. “I came here to pick up residual garbage,” they wrote, demanding money in exchange for the NFTs being returned.
“As usual, I first came here to pick up leftover trash. I eventually learned that I could also get NFT, even though at first I believed I could only get TOKEN. I don’t care that these nfts are worth enough to allow someone to live a free life, even though I’m a good person. One of the attackers remarked, “I would rather pick up the leftover trash.”
The attacker then asserted that they lacked technical expertise and asked that victims send 10% of their Ether (ETH) bounty in return for their NFTs. “It’s taking a lot of time and energy, and I can’t get all the affected nfts at once due to my limited technical skills. […] You must give me a bounty because that’s what I deserve if you want the monkey back,” they wrote.
In an additional unusual development, one of the victims reported that the attacker had returned 31 ETH, or almost $70,680, in addition to a rare NFT. And the hacker just sent me a 31-eth message? What on earth is happening? Is this how life really is? “the victim posted on X.