Bored Ape Yacht Club Discord hacked, MAYC #8662 stolen

One of the astir celebrated and decidedly the largest NFT postulation successful the satellite by marketplace value, got their Discord server hacked by an chartless hacker. The hacker gained entree to the Discord server that hosts Bored Ape Yacht Club, Mutant Ape Yacht Club and Mutant Ape Kennel Club, each 3 NFT collections from Yuga Labs.

The squad down the Discord server confirmed the hack successful a little tweet not containing overmuch accusation oregon immoderate details of the hack oregon its modus operandi. According to information institution PeckShield, the hacker managed to station phishing links successful the Mutant Ape Yacht Club channel.

“We are not doing immoderate April Fools stealth mints”

This nexus was meant to beryllium seen arsenic a “stealth NFT mint” and 1 Mutant Ape Yacht Club proprietor seemingly fell prey to the phishing onslaught and Mutant Ape Yacht Club #8662 was stolen from the user.

#PeckShieldAlert @BoredApeYC Discord compromised, MutantApeYachtClub #8662 has been stolen.https://t.co/bMQrBgxreU
https://mintboredapeyc[.com]/ is #phishing site. Do *NOT* autumn prey to it. https://t.co/NLMiIzKsR6 pic.twitter.com/mUlAkImvRY

— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) April 1, 2022

The squad down the BAYC said successful a tweet that they had “caught it [the hack] immediately”, though evidently not accelerated capable to halt immoderate thefts, and warned users not to mint immoderate NFT utilizing a nexus posted connected its Discord. The tweet from the squad besides reminded users that “we are not doing immoderate April Fools stealth mints/airdrops etc.”

“STAY SAFE. Do not mint thing from immoderate Discord close now. A webhook successful our Discord was concisely compromised,” the BAYC squad wrote successful the tweet.

“We caught it instantly but delight know: we are not doing immoderate April Fools stealth mints / airdrops etc. Other Discords are besides being attacked close now.”

STAY SAFE. Do not mint thing from immoderate Discord close now. A webhook successful our Discord was concisely compromised. We caught it instantly but delight know: we are not doing immoderate April Fools stealth mints / airdrops etc. Other Discords are besides being attacked close now.

— Bored Ape Yacht Club (@BoredApeYC) April 1, 2022

“#PeckShieldAlert @BoredApeYC Discord compromised, MutantApeYachtClub #8662 has been stolen.https://etherscan.io/address/0xad7f0a2427f93bc8fc178a73ae0d2d188682884f…https://mintboredapeyc[.com]/ is #phishing site. Do *NOT* autumn prey to it,” information steadfast PeckShield tweeted, and published the Ethereum address of the hackers.

Doodles’ Discord hacked too?

In effect to the announcement from the BAYC team, Piyush Khemka, bundle technologist astatine Meta, pointed retired that “there is simply a precise blase scam going astir close present successful the Crypto space.”

“There is simply a precise blase scam going astir close present successful the Crypto space. Couple of hackers bought immoderate verified accounts & are pretending to beryllium BAYC founders. They are charging 0.33 ETH to mint caller integer coins. Stay harmless retired determination people. Crypto is genuinely the chaotic west!,” Khemka tweets.

There is simply a precise blase scam going astir close present successful the Crypto space. Couple of hackers bought immoderate verified accounts & are pretending to beryllium BAYC founders. They are charging 0.33 ETH to mint caller integer coins. Stay harmless retired determination people. Crypto is genuinely the chaotic west!

— Piyush Khemka (@piy9) March 24, 2022

Also, different users person warned astir akin exploits and possibly hacks, connected the Doodles’ Discord server, Doodles being different blistery and highly valued NFT collection. At property time, the Doodles squad has not responded to these ale

🚨🚨🚨 DOODLES DISCORD ALSO HACKED. NOT AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE, BE CAREFUL!!! 🚨🚨🚨

— Farokh.eth (🎙, 🎙) (@farokh) April 1, 2022