Solana community tricked hacker into recovering stolen NFTs

Members of the Solana NFT community created a trap for the hacker and successfully returned 25 stolen collectible tokens.

The story began with the hacking of the Discord server of the Uncharted NFT game development studio. 109 users were affected, and 150 SOL (~$6420) and 25 tokens from the World of Solana (WOS) collection became the attacker's prey. Among the latter were three rare NFTs from the top hundred of the MoonRank rating.

In total, the collection includes 2222 unique images of female avatars. Over the past 24 hours, the average sale price was 3 SOL (~$128.4). The most expensive WOS #1874 token for sale is priced at 123 SOL or around ~$5264.

The WOS team came up with a plan to recover the stolen NFTs. She contacted development partner CyberFrogsNFT and asked him to set the token royalty rate at 98% versus the usual 5%.

“He set a trap, and we asked our community to keep an eye on [the marketplace] Magic Eden,” WOS said.

The hacker put all 25 stolen NFTs up for sale two days later. Community members managed to buy 15 tokens, another 10 were acquired by an investor under the nickname FamousFoxFed by sniping.

The WOS developers have contacted him to discuss refunds and returning NFTs to owners.

“The moral of the story is to always use a separate burning wallet and be careful when minting. This is the second time our community has been recovering NFTs stolen by scammers,” the WOS team said.