Cryptocurrency [loss] $3M+

"Investors Spent Millions on 'Evolved Apes' NFTs. Then They Got Scammed."

2021-10-05 [vendor] Evolved Apes [chain] ethereum
Primary Source ↗
Financial Loss $2.7M (2,700,000 USD)
Blockchain(s) Ethereum

Incident Details

A week after the launch of the “Evolved Apes” NFT project, which consisted of 10,000 NFTs and a promised fighting game, the anonymous developer behind the project disappeared after pulling the equivalent of $2.7 million out of the project’s funds.

Total loss estimated at $2,700,000.

Technical Details

Vendor / Product
Evolved Apes

Timeline

  1. 2021-10-05 Breach occurred
  2. 2021-10-05 Publicly disclosed