The official non-fungible token (NFT) inspired by the life of actor and comedian Bill Murray was 'attacked' through his Ethereum (ETH) wallet last night.
Explained, almost 119.2 Wrapped Ethereum (WETH) worth $185,000 was successfully stolen from the wallet following this week's exclusive single edition NFT auction on Coinbase NFT.
It is also understood that the Bill Murray NFT auction was created to raise funds for the Chive Charities initiative which supports the care of a three-year-old girl who is dealing with the effects of a CLDN5 gene mutation and intractable epilepsy.
However, Gavin Gillas who established Project Venkman with Murray said that he started noticing unauthorized transactions removing 108.03 WETH ($171,500) and 1.73 WETH ($2,750) from the wallet last night.
For context, the wallet holds nearly 800 ETH NFTs from the 1,000 Bill Murray projects that will be sold next week including other NFTs owned by Murray through his business partners CryptoPunks, VeeFriends and Damien Hirst artwork.
However, no NFTs were stolen and all Bill Murray 1,000 NFTs and other projects were transferred to other wallets in the next few hours.
According to Gillas and John Resig, CEO of Murray-backed comedy and entertainment website The Chive, they filed a police report shortly after learning about the attack including using blockchain forensic services and the firm and communicating with Coinbase NFT.
He added that Gillas used the Chainalysis service to obtain a larger report, but during the Chainalysis investigation, Gillas was convinced that the attacker gained unauthorized access through a wallet-draining exploit.
This is because such attacks usually occur after the wallet holder accidentally interacts with a link used to commit fraud or the wallet holder signs a transaction that they believe is legitimate.
For example printing NFTs or receiving tokens, but it actually gives broad access rights to the token wallet and can be used to steal the asset.
