Creature Toadz NFT project suffered a theft of around $340,000 when a hacker, posing as a moderator, convinced community members to send 88 ETH to an address he controlled yesterday. However, in a surprising turn of events, he returned all of the stolen assets to the project.
Hacker defrauds Creature Toadz community members of $340,000
The hacker, whose username was revealed to be HEERR on Twitter, was able to hack into the Discord server of the project using a Webhooks vulnerability present on the social media site to hijack the channel.
They then proceeded to pose as a moderator of the project before asking unsuspecting community members to “stealth mint” Creature Toadz via a web link.
Before the members could deduce that this was a fraud, they had collectively sent 88ETH which translated to roughly $368,000 to the hacker’s address. The Creature Toadz NFT team revealed that their channel was compromised for close to 45 minutes.
While the hacker later returned all of the stolen
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