Bored Ape Yacht Club Hack: Actor Loses 4 NFTs In Phishing Attack

KEY POINTS

Scammers stole four NFTs from Seth Green's online wallet, the actor says
The digital assets had a combined value of $308,000
Online marketplace OpenSea has labeled Green's NFTs "suspicious" and banned their sale

Seth Green lost four non-fungible tokens (NFTs) worth more than $300,000 in a phishing attack, the actor says.

"Well frens (sic), it happened to me. Got phished and had [four NFTs] stolen," Green, 48, announced on Twitter Sunday.

Based on the history of Green's NFT wallet, the digital assets were stolen on May 8, CNet reported.

Green had connected his wallet to a scam website while trying to buy Gutter Clone NFTs, the actor explained in another post.

"[P]hishing link looked clean," said Green, who requested NFT-based marketplaces like OpenSea, among others, to halt the purchase or trade of his stolen tokens.

The most expensive digital asset to be taken from Green's wallet was a piece from the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection, which was reportedly valued at $200,000. Two Mutant Ape Yacht Club NFTs that cost $40,000 each as well as a $28,000 Doodles NFT made up the rest of the phished tokens.

Well frens it happened to me. Got phished and had 4NFT stolen. @BoredApeYC @opensea @doodles @yugalabs please don’t buy or trade these while I work to resolve:@DarkWing84 looks like you bought my stolen ape- hit me up so we can fix it pic.twitter.com/VL1OVnd44m
— Seth Green (@SethGreen) May 17, 2022

Green's Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT was transferred to the OpenSea account DarkWing84, while the rest of Green's phished NFTs were given to an anonymous account that has now been deleted, according to ARTNews.

OpenSea labeled Green's stolen NFTs as "suspicious," and the marketplace has barred anyone from making offers to buy them after the actor’s Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT was sold to another buyer.

Green, who has his own NFT collection called Pizzabots, reportedly still has $250,000 worth of NFTs in his wallet following the theft.

As phishing is a form of fraud, NFT scam victims should report their losses to the police or the FBI, Yat Siu, co-founder of gaming company Animoca Brands, advised in a Twitter thread.

Stolen assets should also be advertised in public forums or elsewhere "to demonstrate that sufficient effort has been made to publicize that they are stolen goods," he explained.

"You need to inform all the marketplaces where the goods were traded and that a crime has taken place. If a buyer knowingly purchases a suspicious NFT that was stolen goods, he becomes personally liable," Siu said on Twitter.

"Marketplaces or organizations that - now knowing that the goods have been stolen - that do not take action may potentially make themselves liable as well. This will in turn make it harder to trade the stolen NFTs," he added.