Discord channel of biggest NFT collection out there got compromised once again
The Discord group of one of the largest NFT collections in the market has been compromised for a while, according to the announcement on the official Twitter Account of the Bored Apes Yacht Club.
As the team behind the project suggests, around 200 ETH worth of non-fungible tokens were “impacted,” which most likely means that users transferred around $350,000 worth of NFTs to scammers.
According to reports, the BAYC team is still investigating and looking for users who have been affected by hackers or scammers. Unfortunately, there is no way to return stolen assets, especially if the scammers have already sold coins on secondary markets.
This was not the first exploit the BAYC group experienced in the last few months. Previously, the Discord channel of the collection was compromised with losses exceeding $100,000.
It’s also unclear if the issue has anything to do with Discord security or a certain member of Bored Apes Yacht Club management.
The team also reminded its subscribers that they are not doing any surprise mints or giveaways, ever. Scammers use fake giveaway phishing websites to steal users’ data and then get access to wallets containing NFT pieces.
The APE community wants to stay on Ethereum
Prior to the hack, the decentralized autonomous organization behind ApeCoin initiated a vote that reflected the community’s desire to stay on the Ethereum blockchain rather than following Yuga’s plan to launch its own chain.
The proposal to move to another chain appeared after a problematic APE offering caused Ethereum’s network congestion and an extreme spike in transaction fees. A number of blockchain developers suggested that the issue was in offering smart contracts rather than the blockchain it went on.
