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NFT Trader Hacked, Millions of Dollars in NFTs Stolen.

NFT Trader, a peer-to-peer (P2P) trading platform, suffered a security breach on December 16 that allowed hackers to steal millions of dollars worth of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

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Among the NFTs stolen were at least 13 Mutant Ape Yacht Club and 37 Bored Ape tokens, as well as VeeFriends and World of Women NFTs, resulting in a loss of nearly $3 million. according to Cancel .cash.

After the hack, rumors and misinformation spread on social media platforms. It’s also still unclear how many hackers exploited this security flaw. In a public message, one of the attackers blamed another user for the original exploit. “We’re here to pick up the leftover trash,” they wrote, demanding a ransom to return the NFTs.

“At first, I came to pick up the remaining trash, as usual. At first, I thought I could only get TOKEN, but eventually I found out that I could also get NFT. (…) I am a good person, and the value of this NFT is that people can be free. It’s enough to live on, but I don’t care about it. I prefer to pick up the leftover trash,” said one of the attackers.

The attackers then claimed to have limited technical capabilities and offered to pay victims a 10% bounty in Ether (ETH) in exchange for NFTs. “My technical skills are limited, I can’t get all the affected nft at once, it takes a lot of energy and time (…) If you want your monkey nft back, you have to pay me a bounty. That’s what I deserve. “It happens,” they wrote.

In another atypical situation, one of the victims said the attacker returned a rare NFT along with 31 ETH, worth nearly $70,680 at the time of writing. “But now the hacker sent me 31 ETH? What on earth is going on? Is this real?” said the victim. wrote At X.

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