NFT Charity took a wild turn as a hacker stole the funds raised for charity Thursday. Bill Murray’s crypto took the plunge as 119.2 ETH, about $185k, got stolen. The incident took place hours after Bill Murray’s NFT auction closed.

The original runner-up bidder of the auction offered to replace the stolen funds. Although the NFTs are safe, the hacker drained Murray’s personal wallet at 7:00 p.m. Thursday. The hacker was also after the NFTs stored in the actor’s personal collection.

The high-profile case throws light on the fact that even well-known celebrities are vulnerable to crypto hackers and thieves. But since he had a wallet security team in place, he successfully avoided the worst of the incident.

The wallet security team of Bill Murray shielded the actor’s NFTs by moving his extraordinarily expensive JPEGs, which included a Damien Hirst NFT, two CryptoPunks, a Pudgy Penguin, Numerous Flower Girls, a Cool Cat, along with a pair of safehouse wallets.

The hacker also attempted to steal 800 NFTs from the Bill Murray collection stored in the wallet; the wallet security team said it restricted that attempt by moving those NFTs to a safehouse as well. They ran a script to move the NFTs to security automatically. They were unsuccessful in protecting the funds, though. The hacker got access to the 119.5 ETH Murray raised just a day before for a charity auction. According to Murray’s team, the attacker moved the stolen funds to a wallet address tied to Binance and Unionchain.ai. The hacker has not been identified yet.

Murray’s team has filed a police report and is working with crypto analytics firm Chainalysis to bring the culprit to justice. A runner-up in the auction, Coinbase user Mishap72, sent 120 ETH to Chive Charities to replace the funds that were lost.

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