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Cybersecurity researcher ZachXBT said they identified the wallet linked to the scam.
Law enforcement detained the incorrect idiosyncratic for a 2022 scam that pilfered much than $1 cardinal worthy of Bored Ape non-fungible tokens (NFTs), cybersecurity researcher ZachXBT said.
In a May 9 X post, ZachXBT said helium identified the wallet down the scam and linked it to an X relationship that has since been deleted.
But successful 2023, instrumentality enforcement detained Sam Curry, a erstwhile Yuga Labs information researcher, astatine an airdrome arsenic a fishy successful the incident, ZachXBT said. Yuga Labs is the institution down the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection.
“It’s unfortunate to spot however a information researcher was detained erstwhile stronger leads connected a menace histrion perchance liable exist,” ZachXBT said.
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Anonymous attacker
In December 2022, an anonymous attacker stole 14 Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, which astatine the clip traded for astir $86,000 each, according to data from CoinSlam.
Law enforcement past “mistakenly reviewed logs from OpenSea which included [Curry’s] location IP code and utilized this to incorrectly nexus him arsenic the suspect,” ZachXBT wrote.
“In world arsenic portion of his information enactment astatine Yuga, [Curry] had been investigating the theft and utilized a backstage cardinal enactment successful the JavaScript of the website by the menace actor,” ZachXBT said.
ZachXBT said helium utilized forensic tracing — including reconstructing the travel of funds done Tornado, an Ethereum mixer — to place a idiosyncratic helium alleges is simply a apt fishy successful the 2022 theft.
He said instrumentality enforcement officials should “request each information related to [the individual’s] societal media accounts” and excavation into on-chain transactions associated with their alleged wallet.
Launched successful 2021, Bored Ape Yacht Club is among the astir invaluable NFT collections, with a cumulative marketplace capitalization of much than $300 million, according to data from CoinGecko.
As of May 9, Bored Ape NFTs commercialized for astir $30,000 each, according to NFT marketplace OpenSea. Individual NFTs alteration successful terms owed to unsocial characteristics.
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