One of the more troubling cases of mistaken identity in recent crypto history shows how a respected white-hat hacker and former Yuga Labs security researcher was detained at the airport in 2023 under suspicion of being behind a sophisticated phishing attack that resulted in the theft of over $1.1 million in Bored Ape NFTs. This incident raises many questions about the precision of law enforcement’s forensic processes, especially in the context of increasingly available privacy tools and the growing use of decentralized identities. Sam Curry—a researcher at Yuga Labs who had been working on analyzing phishing threats—became an unintended target
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