Known as the world’s most popular NFT collection bored monkey Yeseight ClubThis time it came forward with a tragic event. A hacker has hacked into the collection’s official Instagram account. After that, the hacker, who shared that they could get free metaverse plots through this account, stole the NFTs from the users’ wallets with the links he sent.

The hacker, who prepared a fake website and sent the link of this site to users, gained trust because it was on the official account. On the page, consisting of two sentences and fake’The Land Airdrop’While there was an article describing it, the bottom button was connecting users’ MetaMask account to the site.

The value of stolen NFTs is over $2.5 million

The hacker, who stole more than a hundred NFTs from the accounts of those who linked their MetaMask accounts to the site, disappeared after Bored Ape Yacht Club announced on Twitter that their Instagram account had been hacked. Scammers on TwitterWhat will happen next?pending a statement from the collection account, there was also activity on the NFT market, where the robbery took place.

MetaMask wallet earlier open sea The hacker, who linked it to his profile, first appeared on the platform with the stolen NFTs. Then came a firsthand statement about the profile being hidden on OpenSea. Head of Communications at OpenSea Allie Mackannounced that OpenSea’s terms of service prohibit fraudulently obtaining items or obtaining them without permission, thereby banning the hacker’s account from the platform. 2.5 million dollars included as.

The team behind the collection said it was trying to contact the victims, explaining that they had no idea how the Instagram account was stolen.