Axie Infinity’s Discord Server Compromised in Phishing Attack
Discord Servers of Popular NFT Collections Hacked
Popular play-to-earn game Axie Infinity project suffers another hack yet again, but this time on Discord. On Wednesday, the company took to Twitter to confirm the hack, saying:
"There was a compromise of the MEE6 bot which was installed on the main Axie server. The attackers used that bot to add permissions to a fake Jiho (co-founder of Axie) account, which then posted a fake announcement about a mint."
In addition to Axie Infinity, other Discord channels from popular NFT collections also appear to be compromised including Moonbirds and PROOF, virtual sneakers company RTFKT, payment network Memeland, and social graph protocol CyberConnect.
Some other projects have also confirmed the attack, speculating that the widely-used MEE6 Discord bot might have been compromised.
MEE6 Team Denies Compromise
As per MEE6 official support, MEE6 is not hacked, but admins in the servers were compromised which allows attackers to use MEE6 features to post messages.
However, the MEE6 team has seemingly denied allegations that the bot was compromised. "MEE6 was, is and never will be compromised," a team member has reportedly said on Discord.
According to the official website, MEE6 bot enables users to create commands that automatically give and remove roles and send messages in the current channels or in the user's direct messages.