Bored Ape Community Manager Hacked, At Least $360k In ETH Stolen In Ensuing Phishing Scam

As massive hacks and thefts in the Bored Ape Yacht Club community have become increasingly common, sometimes humorously so, developers Yuga Labs have told followers that they will "never contact them first."

"Anybody contacting you first is not us. We will NOT reach out to anyone over email first, and we will NEVER ask for your seed phrase," they tweeted in April.

But now, they seem to have failed to take their own advice. Over the weekend, a Bored Ape community manager was hacked, then their account posted a phishing scam that saw the hackers make off with $360,000 worth of the crypto Ethereum.

Our Discord servers were briefly exploited today. The team caught and addressed it quickly. About 200 ETH worth of NFTs appear to have been impacted. We are still investigating, but if you were impacted, email us at discord@yugalabs.io.

— Bored Ape Yacht Club (@BoredApeYC) June 4, 2022

Community manager Boris Vagner appeared to be the victim of the scammers' hack, as they used his account to "promote" an exclusive getaway to BAYC holders.

🚨Bored Ape Discord Hacked 🚨 pic.twitter.com/DfVNBAsDwM

— Bando (@BandoNFT) June 4, 2022

The scam marks the third time in just over two months that scammers have been able to infiltrate and attack the Yuga Labs community and run away with significant chunks of ETH. On the bright(ish) side for Web3 enthusiasts, the scammers' $360,000 haul was significantly less than the $2.9 million haul scammers pulled the last time they infiltrated Yuga in April.

Yet again, crypto doubters took this opportunity to point, meme and laugh at the misfortunes of the ape "hodlers," who hodl their apes no more.

All I did was click on a link in the Bored Ape Community Discord and I entered a password on a malicious site. Because of that, my link to the most hideous picture of a monkey known to man that I paid 15,000 dollars for now belongs to someone else. Stop laughing this is serious

— Ghost of Chicken Puppet (@baseballgaloot) June 6, 2022

"Grandpa tell me about the dot com crash"
(scratch that)
"Grandpa tell me about the financial crisis of 2008"
(scratch that)
"Grandpa tell me about the pandemic of 2020"
(scratch that)
"Grandpa tell me about the great Bored Ape Yacht Club discord server hack" https://t.co/9pANEbZKFA

— Doublewide Capital LLC (@DoubleWideCap) June 4, 2022

all it took to steal millions worth of ape jpegs was to hack the discord account of one guy pic.twitter.com/in8WCIPofy

— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) June 4, 2022