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. Nevertheless, in an fascinating flip of occasions, the Solana group got here collectively to “rip-off” a scammer with a purpose to get again 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 received away with 150-plus SOL tokens and 25 World of Solana (WOS) NFTs, together with three uncommon and extremely priceless digital collectibles.

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

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

Essentially the most affected individual was a WOS whale with 25 WOS NFTs that received 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 group of two,222 distinctive heroines, with the costliest avatar at present listed for 123 SOL ($5,600). The present flooring worth of the gathering is 2.03 SOL.

Within the aftermath of the hack, the group determined to get again the stolen NFTs. The WOS group received 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 group was requested to control the Solana NFT market MagicEden for any new listings. The scammer fell for the lure inside two days, and the group managed to purchase again 15 NFTs, whereas the opposite 10 have been sniped.

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

The group managed to retrieve the opposite 10 sniped NFTs as nicely 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 group managed to purchase 15 and a sniper took the opposite 10.

We despatched 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 group work to get all of them again additionally requested group members to “at all times use a burner pockets and watch out when minting.” The small NFT group has managed to get again at scammers twice now.