US prosecutors have accused a Moroccan national of stealing $450,000 worth of non-fungible tokens, including two Bored Apes collectible tokens. An attacker was stealing NFTs through the fake OpenSea marketplace.

The Ministry of Justice reported that 25-year-old Moroccan Soufiane Oulahyane is suspected of creating the fake OpenSea website, deceiving visitors and obtaining from them seed phrases that can be used to gain access to crypto wallets