Hack history / 2022 / Scam
Hacked verified Twitter accounts impersonate BAYC founders, scam $1 million with fake ApeCoin airdrop
Scam on Mar 24, 2022
ONE SOURCE · 1 SOURCE
Lost
$1M
dollars at the time
Returned
none listed
as the sources state it
Rank
#939
among thefts by dollars lost
What happened
No description from DefiLlama or SlowMist; see the sources below.
Details
- Date
- Mar 24, 2022
- Kind
- Scam
- Method
- not stated
- How in
- Phishing and scams
- Target
- not stated
- Chains
- Ethereum
Reported by
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Cite this page
SwanBluechip, "Hacked verified Twitter accounts impersonate BAYC founders, scam $1 million with fake ApeCoin airdrop scam, Mar 24, 2022: $1M lost", Crypto hack history, https://swan-hack-tracker.pages.dev/history/i/ht84b5daabbb/ (data as of 2026-10-31).