Highly popular Web3 gaming platform PlayDapp has fallen victim to a major hack, leading to an estimated loss of $31 million worth of assets.
The hack highlights the importance and urgent need to improve security measures in the blockchain and crypto ecosystems.
PlayDapp Deployer Address Compromised
The attack was first reported by blockchain security platform Cyvers Alerts shortly before an official confirmation about the hack from PlayDapp themselves. Cyvers broke the news about the hack in a post on X, stating that their systems had detected suspicious transactions with PlayDapp. They noted that PlayDapp’s deployer address had been compromised by a malicious entity that had added itself as the authorized minter on the Web3 platform.
“ALERT! Our system has detected suspicious transactions with @playdapp_io.
It seems that the deployer’s address has been compromised, and the attacker’s address is added as a minter at https://etherscan.io/tx/0xe834f28377b79759ac5495a91975
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