Incidents Involving Hacking of Major NFT Project Discord Channels

The leading Discord bots like Captcha Bot, Arcane, and Ticket Tool were compromised on April 1st.

Only four hours ago, the intruders infiltrated moderators' accounts and sent messages across several Discord servers, affecting notable NFT projects, including BAYC, Doodles, Nyoki, Shamanz, Zooverse, and Kaijukingz.

For example, the BAYC Discord's 'support' section made a post stating, scam announcement 'MAYC + BAYC holders can easily receive unique rewards simply by minting and keeping our mutant dogs!' with a mint link attached below.

Doodles Discord page also offers They also created a fraudulent 'Genesis Mint' with a limited supply of 500 pieces, along with a Nyokie NFTs 'public minting rollout for 1,000 Nyokie'.

Deceptive admin accounts have reached out to users through private messages, promoting the chance to obtain exclusive NFTs and mint the entire collection.

The official Twitter account for Bored Ape Yacht Club has issued a warning to collectors, advising them not to mint any items from Discord at this time, as their web hook had a brief security compromise. The team assures that this incident isn’t related to April Fools' Day. tells We recommend changing your passwords, enabling 2-Factor Authentication, and disabling bot authorizations if you are a moderator of a server.

Always stay alert and avoid clicking on suspicious links. It's possible that more servers will face attacks in the coming days.

The OpenSea Discord server has been hacked, and bots propagated a fake YouTube partnership.

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