According to TechFlow, on October 20, Pop Punk, co-founder of Web3 security and transparency platform g8keep, posted on social media that he was the first person to have his funds withdrawn due to a phishing attack on ApeChain.

The screenshots he shared showed that pop-punk.ape transferred about 145,841 APEs, or about $110,000, to an address marked as Fake_Phishing381 after ApeChain went online.