Law enforcement then “mistakenly reviewed logs from OpenSea which included [Curry’s] home IP address and used this to incorrectly link him as the suspect,” ZachXBT wrote.“In reality as part of his security work at Yuga, [Curry] had been investigating the theft and used a private key put in the JavaScript of the website by the threat actor,” ZachXBT said. ZachXBT said he used forensic tracing — including reconstructing the flow of funds through Tornado, an Ethereum mixer — to identify a person he alleges is a likely suspect in the 2022 theft.
Law enforcement detained the wrong person for a 2022 scam that pilfered more than $1 million worth of Bored Ape non-fungible tokens (NFTs), cybersecurity researcher ZachXBT said. In a May 9 X post, ZachXBT said he identified the wallet behind the scam and linked it to an X account that has since been deleted. But in 2023, law enforcement detained Sam Curry, a former Yuga Labs security researcher, at an airport as a suspect in the incident, ZachXBT said.
He said law enforcement officials should “request all data related to [the individual’s] social media accounts” and dig into on-chain transactions associated with their alleged wallet. Launched in 2021, Bored Ape Yacht Club is among the most valuable NFT collections, with a cumulative market capitalization of more than $300 million, according to data from CoinGecko. As of May 9, Bored Ape NFTs trade for roughly $30,000 each, according to NFT marketplace OpenSea.
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