Another bored ape owner falls victim to the OpenSea listing bug, but how?

In what appears to be one more bug within the OpenSea system, a Bored Ape NFT miraculously bought yesterday with out being listed. The uncommon cheetah fur, pipe-smoking, orange jumpsuit carrying ape by some means bought in a single day for 90 ETH, a determine which the proprietor states is properly beneath the ground worth.

The proprietor, @W1ll1amEth, took to Twitter to hunt assist, confirming he by no means listed the ape and by no means traded wallets. He describes the NFT as his endlessly bayc and had no intention of promoting it. Nonetheless, it could seem that that is one other case of individuals exploiting the OpenSea bug.

These malicious buys bypass OpenSea and buy NFTs at beforehand listed costs. 

What does OpenSea plan to do about this bug?

@W1ll1amEth shouldn’t be the primary to succumb to this terrible hack. Actually, over the previous few weeks, there was a steady stream of ongoing hacks throughout a number of NFT collections.

OpenSea seems to have the ability to do little about this. It might not seem to be a lot in the meanwhile, however 90 ETH is quite a bit higher than what some Bored Ape NFTs have bought for. One bought for 0.77 ETH as a result of hack.

In the meantime, OpenSea is the largest NFT platform on the earth. They have to clear up this drawback rapidly to keep up the credibility of the NFT world. Final Wednesday, OpenSea despatched an e mail to account holders addressing the bug situation.

Nonetheless, many of the Opensea e mail centered on reminding customers to cancel their previous listings and never what they’re planning on doing to handle the stolen NFTs.

Hopefully, there can be additional clarification within the coming weeks for folks like @W1ll1amEth who’ve been robbed of their prize NFTs as a consequence of this OpenSea bug.