Cameo’s CEO fell victim to the latest Bored Ape NFT heist - The Verge

Cameo’s CEO, Steven Galanis, reported being hacked for several NFTs, including a Bored Ape Yacht Club token that was sold for around $130,000.

Non-fungible token, or NFT, thefts aren’t uncommon, but they continue to be a little mind-boggling— a bizarre combination of high risk and massive financial losses. The latest high-profile target is Steven Galanis, the CEO of celebrity video platform Cameo. Galanis reported over the weekend that he’d gotten his Apple ID hacked, and as a result, he lost a variety of NFTs. Most prominently, that included a Bored Ape Yacht Club ape that he bought for nearly $320,000 in January.

Galanis tweeted about the theft of Ape #9012 on Saturday, following a bot reporting the NFT being resold. Galanis originally purchased the ape for 100 Ethereum — around $319,500 at the time of purchase — and the alleged thief flipped it to a new owner for 77 Ethereum, which is now worth around $130,000. Galanis tweeted that he’d also lost several other crypto assets, including BAYC-adjacent Otherside tokens and around 9,000 ApeCoin cryptocurrency tokens, currently worth around $66,000. As of this writing, OpenSea has frozen the ape in question, preventing the new owner — who goes by MonroeSaintJames — from selling it through the platform.

WTF?!? This got hacked https://t.co/rkJhYM8BlH

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/8/23296811/cameo-ceo-steven-galanis-bayc-otherside-apecoin-nft-theft

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