The company said they were investigating the incident and urged users not to click on any links on the server.
Hackers have hacked the OpenSea NFT marketplace Discord server, cybersecurity company PeckSield has said. Discord is a social network designed to communicate with communities of interest.
#PeckShieldAlert #phishing @opensea discord is exploited, youtubenft[.]art is the phishing site. Do *NOT* fall prey to it! https://t.co/RAcRjEfuub pic.twitter.com/rjqMpTnpjW
— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) May 6, 2022
OpenSea representatives said they are investigating a potential vulnerability in their Discord and urged users not to click on any links in it.
We are currently investigating a potential vulnerability in our Discord, please do not click on any links in the Discord.
— OpenSea Support (@opensea_support) May 6, 2022
According to the screenshots, a message was posted on the server about the release of new NFTs in collaboration with YouTube. Users were asked to go to a website whose domain contains the name of the video hosting, but is not an official resource. PecShield identified the link as phishing.
A message from the attackers was posted in the announcement channel. Now it is hidden from users. It is not yet known if there were any casualties and the extent of the damage.
In March , the Rare Bears NFT project was subjected to a similar hack. The attacker posted a phishing link on the project’s Discord channel, thanks to which he managed to steal 179 non-fungible tokens from various collections. Most of the stolen NFTs have been sold, the hacker managed to get 286 ETH, which is almost $800 thousand.
