On Wednesday Axie Infinity said the MEE6 bot was hacked on its main server. It was said that hackers use the MEE6 bot to seek permission to a fake jiho account and then use it to make fake announcements about a mint. Many projects that the MEE6 bot is installed on their server are facing the same issue. Firms like RTFKT, Faith Tribe, PXN, Memeland, Cool Cats, and PROOF/Moonbirds reported that their accounts were compromised.
The team stated that announcements showing a special mint have been deleted and users may still require to restart their Discord. The team also said they have removed the MEE6 bot from the server and they will never do a surprise mint and the team will continuously provide updates about the incident on their Twitter, Discord, and Facebook.
The team and the community are facing a tough time after the Ronin bridge hack in which $625 million was stolen and this made the number of users that play the play-to-earn has decreased and many top players left the firm.
Following the Discord security expert speech the hackers first attacked the admins accounts to build an alternate admin account. With this method hackers send webbook messages while hiding the compromised account of the administrator.
The security expert said it is better to remove MEE6 and the web books immediately instead of trying to identify the attacker (compromised account). As many players have left the game the project continued to suffer hacks. The Axie infinity community has been so angry as there is delay in launching Land.
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