Cryptocurrency
[loss] $3M+
"Investors Spent Millions on 'Evolved Apes' NFTs. Then They Got Scammed."
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
- 2021-10-05 Breach occurred
- 2021-10-05 Publicly disclosed