World of Solana hacker gets scammed in community sting

The World of Solana (WoS) Twitter relationship reported details of a assemblage sting cognition resulting successful a hacker getting scammed.

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We're precise excited to stock a brainsick World of Solana assemblage story:

We person successfully scammed the hacker of @UnchainedNFT_ !

Shoutout to our community, @CyberFrogsNFT and a sniper! ❤️💯#Solana #SolanaNFTs #NFTCommunity

Full Story 🧵👇 pic.twitter.com/4SeG0YDNW4

— World Of Solana 💃 {WOSup} (@worldofsolana) May 25, 2022

What’s peculiarly satisfying, successful this case, is however the hacker got scammed.

How did the hacker get scammed?

The communicative began pursuing a hack of the Unchained NFT’s Discord transmission connected Monday.

Unchained NFT is simply a cross-chain gaming improvement workplace that aims to make “back-end compatibility betwixt the NFT projects and chains we represent.”

“The eventual purpose of Unchained NFT is to physique a melting cookware of crypto civilization and chains wherever communities from each concatenation tin travel unneurotic and thrive. It’s a revolutionary gaming and metaverse journey.”

The hacker drained the wallets of 109 users, resulting successful a full nonaccomplishment of 150 SOL ($6,700) and the theft of 25 WoS NFTs. Within those WOS NFTs mislaid were respective of the apical 100.

In response, assemblage members @QuantMaven, @AngelaTNFT, and @cryptosile, unneurotic with dev @CyberFrogsNFT, hatched a program to get the NFTs back.

To bait the hacker into breaking cover, the squad “set royalties to 98%,” portion asking the assemblage to support ticker connected Solana’s superior NFT marketplace, Magic Eden.

Royalties notation to a percent chopped of the merchantability terms each clip the NFT is sold connected a marketplace. The default royalty connected WoS NFTs is 5%.

Two days aft springing the trap, the hacker listed the stolen NFTs connected Magic Eden, resulting successful 15 being bought by the assemblage and the remainder “took” by a “sniper.”

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Two days later, astir 2am EST, the hacker listed the 25 WOS NFTs connected @MagicEden.@WorldofSolana assemblage managed to bargain 15 and a sniper took the different 10.

We sent a @FamousFoxFed DING to the sniper and helium gladly accepted to cooperate. 💌 pic.twitter.com/3TCRnnZ4qQ

— World Of Solana 💃 {WOSup} (@worldofsolana) May 25, 2022

The connection sent to the “sniper” ended successful the instrumentality of the stolen NFTs to their rightful owners. The final tweet signed disconnected by praising the community’s actions successful pulling disconnected the sting, and for a 2nd time.

“This is the 2nd clip our assemblage has recovered scammed NFTs.

Our assemblage is small, but unneurotic we are precise strong!”

What is the World of Solana?

The WoS is simply a postulation of 2,222 unsocial Solana blockchain heroines warring for state successful a fictional warfare betwixt rival blockchains and the government.

“A warfare is taking place, betwixt rival blockchains and the government. Only done unity tin the blockchains decision their communal enemy.”

Each is based connected a operation of 18 chiseled traits, including background, aura, hairstyle, body, etc. The astir costly WoS NFT is #1874, listed astatine 123 SOL ($5,600).

Source: WoS #1874 connected MagicEden.io

The postulation has a existent terms level of 2.03 SOL ($92), this represents a 41% driblet from its highest level terms of 3.46, achieved connected April 12.