Law enforcement agencies stopped the wrong person for a fraud in 2022, which defeated bored monkey tokens worth over $ 1 million (NFTS), said Zachxbt.
On May 9 x postZachxbt said he identified the wallet behind the fraud and associated it with account X, which was removed.
But in 2023, law enforcement agencies detained Curry himself, a former safety researcher of Yuga Labs, at the airport as a suspect in an incident, said Zachxbt. Yuga Labs is a company for the bored collection of Appee Yacht Club NFT.
“This is an unfortunate vision of how a security researcher was arrested when a stronger potentially actually led an actor of a threat who exists responsible,” said Zachxbt.
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Anonymous attacker
In December 2022, an anonymous attacker stole 14 bored Apery Yacht Club NFT, which at that time traded for around USD 86,000, according to data with Coinslam.
Law enforcement authorities “mistakenly reviewed the journals from Opensea, which included [Curry’s] Home IP Address and used it to incorrectly connect him as a suspect – wrote Zachxbt.
“In fact, as part of the work of security in Yuga, [Curry] He examined the theft and used a private key placed in JavaScript on the website by the threatened actor – said Zachxbt.
Zachxbt said that he used a criminal tracking – including the reconstruction of the flow of funds by Tornado, the Ethereum mixer – in order to identify a person he, he claims, is a probable suspect in 2022.
He said that law enforcement officers should “ask for all data related to [the individual’s] Social media accounts ”and delve into transactions in the chain related to their alleged portfolio.
Introduced to the market in 2021, boredom Appeal Yacht Club is one of the most valuable NFT collections, with a cumulative market capitalization of over $ 300 million, according to data with Coingecko.
From May 9, bored monkeys trade around USD 30,000, According to to NFT Marketplace OpenSea. Individual NFT differs in price due to the unique features.
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