QUADRIGA INITIATIVE
CRYPTO WATCHDOG & FRAUD RECOVERY PLATFORM
A COMMUNITY-BASED, NOT-FOR-PROFIT
$1 300 000 USD
DECEMBER 2021
GLOBAL
MONKEY KINGDOM
DESCRIPTION OF EVENTS
"Monkey Kingdom is one of the known “Bluechip” projects in Solana NFT space, currently sitting at 45 SOL FP, but reaching the floor price up to 100 SOL (~$18,000)."
"Monkey Kingdom's first collection (Gen 1) - 2,222 uniquely generated 32x32 pixels NFTs on the Solana Blockchain. Daily $PEACH token airdrop, staking, breeding, metaverse development and real world exclusive meet-ups and merch collabs. Gen 2 - Diamond Baepes (on Solana) Gen 3 - Monkey Legends (on Ethereum)"
"There was a scheduled party with Steve Aoki to celebrate the new minting collection."
"The[ Monkey Kingdom project] reported earlier that malicious links were spreading via DM, so they announced to not click anything except the official announcement channel."
"[B]ut it ended up really bad." "Just before the real mint, a big hack happened over the Monkey Kingdom Solana NFT project. Over $1.2 million [was] hacked from thousands of people who tried to mint and some individuals are reporting that they lost 650 SOL (~$100,000)."
"This seems like a well-planned attack." "[It] seems that [a] malicious bot sent an official announcement with a malicious link, which looked exactly like the original website." "[T]he malicious bot sent the announcement from the official channel, and people were rushing like crazy to be the first one to mint. They also reported a DDOS attack on their website, which made it unavailable, just before the mint."
"Since minting such a big project is a race of fast fingers, a lot of people didn’t pay attention to what is going on. The website asked for permission from a Phantom wallet, and it actually drained all SOL from their wallet."
On December 21st, 2021, "users of Solana-powered NFT projects Fractal and Monkey Kingdom also faced phishing fraud via the official servers."
"Over 7,000 SOL ($1.2 million) got lost." "According to a report, hackers were able to steal crypto worth $150,000 and $1.3 million from Fractal and Monkey Kingdom NFT holders, respectively."
"Guys I got drained 650 $SOL. It is one my biggest mistake. I am always recommending people using burner but I was nervous and fomo the Monkey Kingdom Mint. Never thought it was not a legit mint link in official discord. It is important money to my family: my wife, my son."
"The[ Monkey Kingdom team] are investigating with Discord developers what happened, and also said they will make it up to all victims, but let's see what will happen."
"Once you interact with these fake bots they will snag your discord token, giving them instant access to your account without 2FA or your password."
Monkey Kingdom's NFT launch was interfered with by fraudulent links, which pretended to allow users to mint NFTs for the project. The malicious links were sent from the official channel of the project. Heavy losses were taken, reportedly up to $1.3m USD.
Warning: Hackers Are Targeting Discord Bots to Rob NFT Users (Jul 16)
Tradegrow comments on Over 7,000 SOL ($1.2 million) got lost on Solana NFT mint due to a hack that happened on the Discord channel (Oct 3)
@MonkeyKingdom Twitter (Nov 15)
Monkey Kingdom️ (Nov 18)
Monkey Kingdom NFT Hack - $1.2 million worth Solana got stolen | Vanila Blog (Nov 18)
@commenstar Twitter (Nov 18)
Whois Lookup Captcha (Nov 18)
Monkey Kingdom - Magic Eden (Nov 18)
@MonkeyKingdom_ Twitter (Jun 1)
@MonkeyKingdom_ Twitter (Jun 1)
@MonkeyKingdom Twitter (Jun 1)
Solana-Based Hacked Monkey Kingdom Has a Phishing Lesson for NFT Buyers (Jun 1)
Over 7,000 SOL ($1.2 million) got lost on Solana NFT mint due to a hack that happened on the Discord channel : solana (Jun 2)
