Cryptocurrency [loss] $1M+

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2021-12-21 [vendor] Monkey Kingdom Discord [chain] solana
Primary Source ↗
Financial Loss $1.3M (1,300,000 USD)
Blockchain(s) Solana

Incident Details

An NFT trader hoping to get in on the “Monkey Kingdom” NFT collection was duped by a scam link in the project’s official Discord channel, and sent 650 SOL (about $116,000) to a scammer. “It is important money to my family: my wife, my son”, the victim wrote on Twitter. Another person replied to the tweet to say they too had been duped by the Discord scammer, to the tune of about 19.5 SOL (about $3,500). In total, the phishing link netted the attacker about $1.3 million. The scam was apparently made possible by a compromise of the “Grape Protocol” Discord tools, a hack that was also used to target users of the Fractal project’s Discord that same day.

Total loss estimated at $1,300,000.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
Phishing attack
Vendor / Product
Monkey Kingdom Discord

Timeline

  1. 2021-12-21 Breach occurred
  2. 2021-12-21 Publicly disclosed