Gordon Goner Warns Of Danger Of Hacking His Twitter Account, Scams Could Emerge

Yuga Labs, home to some of the most popular nonfungible (NFT) tokens. (photo: @BoredApeYC)

JAKARTA - Gordon Goner, co-founder of Yuga Labs, issued a warning about the possibility of an attack on their social media accounts under the Yuga Labs umbrella. The warning comes after he received "credible information" and that a Twitter insider would help tighten the security of his account.

We’ve received credible information that there may soon be an attack on our social media accounts, using an inside source at @Twitter to bypass our security.

There are no surprise mints. Ever.

— GordonGoner.eth (@GordonGoner) June 11, 2022

Yuga Labs, home to some of the most popular nonfungible (NFT) tokens including Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and Otherside, proactively approached Twitter to tighten its account security after receiving information about an imminent planned attack on its social media accounts.

BAYC & OtherSide discords got compromised‼️Seems because Community Manager @BorisVagner got his account breached, which let the scammers execute their phishing attack. Over 145E in was stolen Proper permissions could prevent this pic.twitter.com/lCl2DfZQ0W

— OKHotshot (@NFTherder) June 4, 2022

Immediately after alerting the community, Twitter officials began actively monitoring activity on the account in addition to strengthening existing security. While issuing a proactive warning, Goner told investors that the company would never go for “surprise candy”, a popular method attackers use to lure victims.

Hey folks--in the interest of transparency, we'd like to share some details about an ongoing situation:https://t.co/915vIgRIJG

Summary below 🧵👇

— Optimism (✨🔴_🔴✨) (@optimismPBC) June 8, 2022

The popularity and public demand of Yuga Labs' NFT offering resulted in the appearance of an unintentional ape-themed scam. On June 5, attackers managed to break into the BAYC and OtherSide Discord Yuga Labs groups and retrieve more than 145 Ether (ETH).

According to a Cointelegraph report, an investigation by blockchain detective OKHotshot revealed that the attack was carried out by hacking the Discord account of Boris Vagner, community and social manager at Yuga Labs.

Optimism's layer-2 scaling solution suffered a loss of 20 million OP tokens after falling victim to an exploit in its market maker smart contract.

Of the lots, one million tokens worth approximately USD 1.3 million (IDR 19 billion) have been sold and one million tokens worth approximately USD 730.000 (IDR 10.6 billion) have been transferred to Vitalik Buterin's Ethereum address at Optimism. The remaining 18 million tokens remain inactive and can be sold or used to influence governance decisions.