Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Discord server was hacked again and some NFTs were stolen. All the info in this note!
In a recent damage report, the manager of Bored Ape Yacht Club announced that the server Discord of the company was again hacked. In addition, they reported that millions of dollars were stolen in tokens non-expendable (NFT) and the native currency of Ethereum, the Ether.
According to an external report, the account of Boris Wagner, the community manager Bored Ape Yacht Clubwas the hacked. The attackers used the stolen identity to post fake links on the servers of Discord of Bored Ape Yacht Club Y other sidethe website of the company that is a project related to the metaverse.
However, the servers Bored Ape Yacht Club Y other side they were not the only ones who received links false. on the server Spoiled Banana Societya Proyect of NFT what’s wrong with it Boris with his brother, Richard, these were also sent links. The message was quickly deleted, but Richard however, he requested a damage report from the members of the server.
“Hello @everyone went hacked an hour ago and we hope no one has clicked any link. We already have control of Discord and from the account Borisluckily the entire server was not deleted”, said the message Richard. “We’ll get all the tabs back in the next few days and please let us know if there’s anything else they messed with.”
By now, they were stolen around 200 Ether in NFT value, equivalent to $360,000 at the current exchange rate. It must be considered that the NFT’s of Bored Ape Yacht Clubs they are currently the most popular and the most valuable, since their change is quite high.
In recent months the NFT’s they turned the cryptocurrency most used and some reach the value of six digits. This conversion is what makes the NFT’s an attractive object for hackerswho invent more and more forms of theft.
But this is not the first time that the server of Bored Ape Yacht Club suffer some hack. A month ago, via an unofficial link from “mint” sent to fans Discord and of Instagram they stole around 24 Bored Apes Y 30 Mutant Apes. The minimum estimated value of these 54 NFTs it was of $13.7 million. If we compare the value that they took in April with that of now, we can see that the value is much less. This could indicate that the security of the server has been slightly improved. However, it is still a bit dangerous at the moment to trust the NFT’s due to hacks that they are suffering.