Hacker tastes own medicine as community gets back stolen NFTs

Tales of merchants getting scammed out of their nonfungible tokens have been fairly frequent on the peak of the NFT increase. Nonetheless, in an attention-grabbing flip of occasions, the Solana community got here collectively to “rip-off” a scammer with a view to get back some stolen NFTs.

It began with the Discord channel hack of cross-chain gaming growth studio Uncharted NFT, the place scammers managed to empty 109 person wallets. The scammers bought away with 150-plus SOL tokens and 25 World of Solana (WOS) NFTs, together with three uncommon and extremely precious digital collectibles.

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All of it started when @UnchainedNFT_ Discord bought hacked two days in the past.

A hacker drained the pockets of 109 customers for a complete of 150+ $SOL.

Probably the most affected individual was a WOS whale with 25 WOS NFTs that bought stolen.

This whale additionally owned 3 prime 100 @MoonRankNFT WOS NFTs ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/R2PWe3gPMX

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

WOS is a set of two,222 distinctive heroines, with the most costly avatar at the moment listed for 123 SOL ($5,600). The present ground value of the gathering is 2.03 SOL.

Within the aftermath of the hack, the community determined to get back the stolen NFTs. The WOS staff bought in contact with their growth companion, who goes by Cyberfrog on Twitter, and raised royalties on the stolen NFTs to 98% from the default 5%.

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The community was requested to control the Solana NFT market MagicEden for any new listings. The scammer fell for the entice inside two days, and the community managed to purchase back 15 NFTs, whereas the opposite 10 have been sniped.

Sniping is the method of ready till the previous few seconds of an NFT public sale to make a profitable bid. This technique is used to forestall different NFT bidders from inserting a better bid earlier than the public sale ends.

The community managed to retrieve the opposite 10 sniped NFTs as effectively and return the 25 WOS NFTs to the rightful proprietor.

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Two days later, round 2am EST, the hacker listed the 25 WOS NFTs on @MagicEden.@WorldofSolana community managed to purchase 15 and a sniper took the opposite 10.

We really feel a @FamousFoxFed DING to the sniper and he gladly accepted to cooperate. pic.twitter.com/3TCRnnZ4qQ

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

The Twitter thread detailing the occasions of the hack and the community work to get all of them back additionally requested community members to “all the time use a burner pockets and watch out when minting.” The small NFT community has managed to get back at scammers twice now.