The Discord servers of some NFT projects, including BAYC, were compromised on Friday as part of a phishing scam seeking to trick users into “minting” fake NFTs
This isn't the first hack of Discord-based crypto communities, and it's not likely to be the last.
VICE Edward Ongweso Jr
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Discussion
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@adeldmeyer
@adeldmeyer
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BAYC @BoredApeYC Discord got hacked 👀 OR It's an April fools joke 🤔 Either way, be careful! Never a dull day in NFT world!
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@crypto
@crypto
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⚡️ Hackers “briefly compromised” Bored Ape Yacht Club chat servers hosted by messaging platform Discord in an effort to trick users into minting fake NFT tokens https://twitter.com/...
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@breetapp
@breetapp
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Discord is a common platform for NFT traders, @BoredApeYC and @doodles official discord accounts has been hacked. Please be careful!
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@vauldofficial
@vauldofficial
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BAYC Says Discord Server Exploited, MAYC NFT Stolen “Security firm PeckShieldAlert confirmed that the MutantApeYachtClub #8662 was stolen, linking the finding to Etherscan.” #BAYC #NFT
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@tim
Tim Bradshaw
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A couple of NFT Discords being hacked in a day is considered “normal”... ⬇️ Today BAYC, Doodles and several others were hit. This isn't a security problem with NFTs per se - it's a problem with Discord and the daisy chain of third party tools that server mods have to rely on http…
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@bigblackjacobin
Edward Ongweso Jr
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Another day, another scam. Multiple major NFT projects were hit by a phishing scam that hijacked Discord bots and issued announcements linking to fake sites created to steal ETH and NFTs. https://www.vice.com/...
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@officialtravlad
@officialtravlad
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Be careful on NFT discords right now guys, lots of attacks going on #NFTCommuntiy
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@stratorob
Dr. Robin Kiera
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BAYC Says @discord Briefly Compromised, Tells Users to Avoid Discord for Minting APE #NFTs https://www.binance.com/... @binance via @stratorob @BoredApeYC @RichLoPresti @lyakovet @JBarbosaPR @anand_narang @aswagalmal @JoeRaimondo @mediaadgroup @sudeepkhatri #BoredApe #NFT #Crypto