{"id":26753,"date":"2023-12-17T19:05:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T19:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/nft-traders-stolen-apes-returned-after-bounty-payment\/"},"modified":"2023-12-17T19:05:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T19:05:46","slug":"nft-traders-stolen-apes-returned-after-bounty-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/nft-traders-stolen-apes-returned-after-bounty-payment\/","title":{"rendered":"NFT Trader\u2019s stolen Apes returned after bounty payment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) nonfungible tokens (NFTs) stolen from the peer-to-peer trading platform NFT Trader have been returned after a bounty payment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
NFTs worth nearly $3 million were stolen in the hack on Dec. 16. As per public messages, the attacker attributed the original exploit to another user. \u201cI came here to pick up residual garbage,\u201d they wrote, requesting ransom payments to return the NFTs.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you want these NFT\u2019s back then you need to pay me 120 ETH [\u2026] and then I will send you the NFT\u2019s, it\u2019s as simple as that, and I never lie, believe me [\u2026],\u201d reads<\/a> one of the messages. <\/p>\n A community initiative led by Boring Security \u2014 a non-profit Web3 security project funded by ApeCoin \u2014 recovered all the assets in less than 24 hours after paying the 120 Ether (ETH) bounty, worth around $267,000 at the time of writing.<\/p>\n \u201cAll 36 BAYC and 18 MAYC that the exploiter had are now in our possession. We sent her [the hacker] 10% of the floor price of the collections as bounty,\u201d the Boring Security team wrote<\/a> on X (formerly Twitter). <\/p>\n Congratulations to the @BoringSecDAO<\/a> in getting back those Apes. <\/p>\n Well done. \u2705 @BoredApeYC<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/brVGQ58Sg2<\/a><\/p>\n\n