{"id":387793,"date":"2021-12-31T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/opensea-freezes-2-2m-of-stolen-bored-apes\/"},"modified":"2021-12-31T04:00:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T01:00:20","slug":"opensea-freezes-2-2m-of-stolen-bored-apes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/opensea-freezes-2-2m-of-stolen-bored-apes\/","title":{"rendered":"# OpenSea freezes $2.2M of stolen Bored Apes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># OpenSea freezes $2.2M of stolen Bored Apes <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMTIvMjNhZjAyNWItNWNlYS00MTdjLTg4ZWYtOGViZDUyOGI3NjBjLmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-128018ef>NFT marketplace OpenSea has frozen 16 Bored Ape and Mutant Ape nonfungible tokens (NFT) after they were reportedly stolen yesterday from a New York art gallery operator.<\/p>\n<p>In total, one Clonex, seven Mutant Ape Yacht Club, and eight Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs currently valued at about 615 ETH ($2.28 million) were stolen and are now not able to be traded on OpenSea.<\/p>\n<p>The toddkramer.eth account, which links to the Ross+Kramer Art Gallery in New York, fired off a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of tweets <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/toddkramer1\/status\/1476455040542027777\">detailing<\/a> the 16 NFTs that were stolen from his hot wallet and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/toddkramer1\/status\/1476450669406175234\">pleading<\/a> with OpenSea and the NFT community for help. While the NFT community was often unsympathetic to the trader\u2019s plight, OpenSea froze trading on the stolen items.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gidwellsoon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@gidwellsoon<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tob_Opensea?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Tob_Opensea<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/j1mmy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@j1mmy<\/a>    I have been hacked. Please Help<\/p>\n<p>Ape 2771<br \/>Ape 6416<br \/>Ape 1623<br \/>Ape 1708<br \/>Ape 8214<br \/>Ape 7528<br \/>Ape 9988<br \/>Ape 9410<\/p>\n<p>Mutants 25057<br \/>Mutant 11177<br \/>Mutant 28752<br \/>Mutant 24718<br \/>Mutant 2436<br \/>Mutant 9278<br \/>Mutant 2434<\/p>\n<p>Clonex 6801<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 toddkramer.eth (@toddkramer1) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/toddkramer1\/status\/1476455040542027777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe freeze on buying and selling the NFTs have some traders decrying a lack of decentralization, one of the cherished aspects of the crypto industry. One <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> commenter kw.sol <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Forculus\/status\/1476546213772029956\">said<\/a>, \u201cWho was able to freeze the n? Feels pretty anti crypto to be asking third parties to do this and ideally they shouldn\u2019t be able to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Famed software engineer Grady Booch chimed in about the lack of decentralization in this case when he <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Grady_Booch\/status\/1476639345851265027\">commented<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSilly me.\u00a0And here I thought that the code is the law and that one of the very ideas of cryptocurrencies was the elimination of any possibility of centralized intervention.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A hot wallet is a type of cryptocurrency software wallet that is connected to the internet \u2014 most commonly MetaMask \u2014 whenever the device it is installed on is connected.<\/p>\n<p>Kramer tweeted that he lost his collection through a phishing scam that gained access to his hot wallet after he clicked on a malicious link. He deleted the tweet following the harsh vitriol in the comments. Kramer most recently <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/toddkramer1\/status\/1476667986895323145\">tweeted<\/a> on Dec. 31 that he was surprised by the reaction:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Twitter is ruuuuuuthlesssss<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 toddkramer.eth (@toddkramer1) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/toddkramer1\/status\/1476667986895323145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While Kramer has little recourse in retrieving the stolen NFTs, his experience highlights the importance of sound operational security (opsec) as a cryptocurrency trader or NFT collector. He said that he has learned a lesson about opsec in handling valuable cryptocurrency when he <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/toddkramer1\/status\/1476519801401061378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">tweeted<\/a> yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLessons learned. Use a hard wallet&#8230; \u201c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A hard wallet, otherwise known as a cold wallet, is a crypto wallet that does not connect to the internet until manually plugged into a computer and then each transaction needs to be <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roved using physical buttons. Hard wallets are a superior measure over hot wallets to secure crypto assets.<\/p>\n<p>Kramer\u2019s ordeal is not a unique experience to NFT traders, especially those familiar with the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection. <\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 26, NFT collector bergpay.eth <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blockchainberg\/status\/1475054747870765059\">said<\/a> he suffered a similar fate to Kramer when 5 Jungle Freaks and 2 Sandbox NFTs were stolen from his Ethereum wallet and his ENS domain was transferred to a new address. <\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 30, Twitter account friesframe summed up the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/friesframe\/status\/1465666162176397317\">frustration<\/a> that can overcome an NFT owner if they find that their favorite items have been stolen from their hot wallet. <\/p>\n<p>OpenSea has not frozen either bergpay\u2019s or friesframe\u2019s NFTs yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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In total, one Clonex, seven Mutant Ape Yacht Club, and eight Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs currently valued at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":387794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMTIvMjNhZjAyNWItNWNlYS00MTdjLTg4ZWYtOGViZDUyOGI3NjBjLmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74983,95118,70375,72287],"class_list":["post-387793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-decentralization","tag-nft","tag-cybersecurity","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}