$3M stolen- BAYC Instagram Hack🦍

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3 min readMay 2, 2022

Events Under the Spotlight 🔎

More than $13M stolen from DeFi platform Deus Finance

Deus Finance DAO is a decentralized bilateral OTC derivatives platform on Ethereum.
It suffered an oracle price manipulation attack which caused the platform to lose $13.4M.
The hacker withdrew funds of ~800 ETH from Tornado Cash to launch the attack and tunneled to Fantom using AnySwap from Ethereum.

‘Head Football’ on BSC rugged investors

‘Head Football’ on BSC rugged investors by dumping huge amounts of $HEAD tokens in the market and closing down all communication channels.
The price of $HEAD tokens fell 96%.

Univmoney Rug Pull

Univmoney on Avalanche network rugged investors as the contract deployer minted ~ 16 trillion $UNIV tokens and dumped them in the open market to profit $270K.
As a result, the value of $UNIV fell 100%.
The team deleted all social media channels, including Twitter, Discord, and the website.

ANA Rug Pull

ANA on BSC rugged by transferring many tokens to another wallet to cause a massive sell-off using PancakeSwap.
The $ANA price plunged 91%.

$3M in NFTs stolen as a result of BAYC Instagram hack

Bored Ape Yacht Club’s (BAYC) Instagram handle was hacked to promote the NFT minting scam.
The scammers were able to steal four Bored Ape NFTs and other NFTs from related projects — seven from the Mutant Apes collection and three from the Bored Ape Kennel Club collection.
$3 Million worth of BAYC NFTs were stolen during the hack.