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Bored Ape Yacht Club Discord suffers phishing scam

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Apr 1
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Bored Ape Yacht Club’s official Discord server was compromised early Friday, resulting in multiple high-valued NFTs getting stolen.

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An unknown hacker gained access to Bored Ape Yacht Club’s server through a webhook and quickly posted a phishing link in the Mutant Ape Kennel Club channel that was as a ‘stealth NFT mint’. Because it is April Fools, a few users unfortunately thought it was legitimate.

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With the phishing link, the hacker successfully stole Mutant Ape Yacht Club #8662, in addition to Bored Ape Yacht Club #3738, one Mutant Ape and two Doodles held by Taiwanese singer Jay Chou.

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#PeckShieldAlert #phishing JayChou's NFTs were stolen, including a BAYC, MAYC, & two Doodles.
etherscan.io/address/0xe34F… #BAYC #phantabear #jaychou @BoredApeYC #nft #BoredApeYachtClub #BoredApeYC
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“STAY SAFE. Do not mint anything from any Discord right now. A webhook in our Discord was briefly compromised,” BAYC said in a Tweet. “We caught it immediately but please know: we are not doing any April Fools stealth mints / airdrops etc. Other Discords are also being attacked right now.”

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Security researchers have concluded that a ticket tool that verifies users and sends channel notifications had been compromised. After anyone clicked on the link, they would be directed to a site where they could mint a ‘limited-edition NFT.’ Other NFT servers using the bot, including Doodles and Nyoki, also got hacked minutes later.
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