{"id":66493,"date":"2022-08-30T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=66493"},"modified":"2025-09-07T01:36:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:36:33","slug":"immunefi-experts-value-134-stolen-bayc-nfts-at-13-6-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/immunefi-experts-value-134-stolen-bayc-nfts-at-13-6-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Immunefi experts value 134 stolen BAYC NFTs at $13.6 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The value of 143 tokens from the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection, for which the OpenSea marketplace had marked suspicious activity, amounts to $13.58 million. This assessment was provided by Immunefi&#8217;s bug-bounty platform specialists.<\/p>\n<p>134 of the 143 tokens, valued at $12.64 million, retain a similar status.<\/p>\n<p>The most expensive BAYC in this sample was last sold for 194 ETH ($267,914).<\/p>\n<p>Such NFTs cannot be bought, sold or transferred using the <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ru\/opensearch-service\/the-elk-stack\/what-is-opensearch\/\">OpenSearch<\/a> function.<\/p>\n<p>OpenSea does not custody tokens on the platform. Hackers may use other services to transfer or sell stolen NFTs or interact directly with interested users.<\/p>\n<p>After ownership transfer, a token can lose such a label. Immunefi cited Bored Ape #9988 as an example. The NFT changed hands following an exchange involving an additional 6.13 ETH for Bored Ape #753 in NFTX&#8217;s liquidity pool.<\/p>\n<p>Experts noted that the best protection for tokens against criminals is cold storage of assets. Users fall prey to hackers due to phishing, malicious links and software, and malware.<\/p>\n<p>In the event of an NFT marketplace attack, experts recommended revoking any access to the platform and transferring the tokens to a hardware wallet.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by Immunefi, crypto-project losses from hacks in the second quarter totaled $670.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>For January\u2013March 2022, the figure stood at $1.22 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\u201d\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 crypto news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The value of 143 tokens from the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection, for which the OpenSea marketplace had marked suspicious activity, amounts to $13.58 million. This assessment was provided by Immunefi&#8217;s bug-bounty platform specialists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1356,1154,1213],"class_list":["post-66493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bored-ape-yacht-club","tag-crimes","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66495,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66493\/revisions\/66495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}