Cryptocurrency
[loss] $6M+
Tweet thread by zachxbt
Primary Source ↗Financial Loss
$6.1M
(6,100,000 USD)
Blockchain(s)
Ethereum
Incident Details
In what should surprise nobody, some of the historically phishing-prone fans of the pricey Bored Apes project fell for scams that pretended to be the Bored Apes’ new land project, called “Otherside”. In collectors’ hurry to mint the metaverse land NFTs, some fell for phishing sites pretending to be the real deal.Blockchain sleuth zachxbt found one such address that had netted around $1 million in NFTs just today, and tracing its transactions led to two other scammer wallets containing $5.1 million of other stolen NFTs.
Total loss estimated at $6,100,000.
Technical Details
- Initial Attack Vector
- On-chain theft (attributed by zachxbt)
- Vendor / Product
- Otherside phishing sites
Timeline
- 2022-04-30 Breach occurred
- 2022-04-30 Publicly disclosed