Before starting the story, I would like to confess that I can’t stop laughing at the fact that hackers got hacked. I mean, seriously? Ok, enough, here you go. It all started with the cross-chain gaming development firm Uncharted NFT’s Discord channel being hacked, with hackers draining 109 user wallets. Scammers made off with more than 150 SOL tokens and 25 World of Solana (WOS) NFTs, including three rare and costly digital treasures.
WOS is a collection of 2,222 different heroines, the most expensive of which costs 123 SOL ($5,600). The collection’s current floor price is 2.03 SOL.
Following the incident, the community decided to recover the stolen NFTs. The WOS team contacted their development partner, who goes under the Twitter handle “Cyberfrog,” and increased royalties on stolen NFTs from the default 5% to 98 percent.
The community was encouraged to keep an eye out for any new listings on the Solana NFT marketplace, MagicEden. Within two days, the scammer fell for the trap, and the community was able to reclaim 15 NFTs, while the remaining 10 were sniped.
Sniping is the process of making a winning offer in an NFT auction by waiting until the last few seconds. This approach is intended to keep other NFT buyers from outbidding you before the auction concludes.
The community was able to recover the remaining ten sniped NFTs as well as the 25 WOS NFTs and restore them to their proper owners.
The events of the hack and the community’s efforts to recover it all were documented on the Internet, which also advised community members to “always use a burner wallet and be careful when minting.” The little NFT community has already retaliated against scammers twice.
So, hopefully, hackers will think twice before committing a fraud.
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