Hollywood Actor Bill Murray saw $174,000 worth of crypto stripped from him ether ETH/USD Wallet from an anonymous hacker.
What happened: On Thursday, Murray raised 119.2 ETH for charity in an auction Coinbase Global Inc COIN NFT Marketplace. The winning bid at the time was $185,000 and represented a one-of-a-kind collector’s item that earned the owner a beer with the actor.
Just hours after the auction ended, a hacker attacked Murray’s personal ETH wallet and dehydrated worth about $174,000 Packaged Ethereum WETH/USD in a series of transactions.
Today a hacker stole $174,000 from Bill Murray’s NFT charity project. So what happened next?
Hacker swapped majority for 1 inch then sent everything to 0xada then sent to Binance, HitBTC and FixedFloat (didn’t use TornadoCash) pic.twitter.com/IeKryS4eGY
— OKHotshot (@NFTherder) September 2, 2022
On-chain analyst OKHotshot noted on Twitter that the hacker exchanged the bulk of the stolen cryptos through decentralized exchanges 1 inch, before it is moved to centralized platforms like binance and HitBTC.
The analyst noted that the hacker did not use a sanctioned coin shuffler Tornado Cash TORN/USD to move the stolen funds and speculated that the hacker could be a US citizen.
“Matching data at Coinbase, HitBTC and Binance may prove successful [sic] in the search for the perpetrator. Very sad that 95% of the funds given to charity have been stolen,” he said in a tweet.
gavin gillas, CEO of project venkman, Murray’s NFT Advice, said The wallet security team had moved the rest of the actor’s high-value NFTs into two safehouse wallets before the hacker could steal the digital collectibles. Gillas also said that the blockchain analytics company chain analysis investigated the theft.
Price promotion: According to data from Gasoline ProETH traded at $1,547, down 5.4% over 24 hours.
Photo: Courtesy of Paul Sherwood on flickr
