Many believe that the hackers compromised the admin accounts first and then got access to the alternate admin account using MEE6. However, the official MEE6 Discord support channel denied allegations of a hack and claimed they have verified with their engineers and didn’t see any unusual activity. The developers also claimed that the compromise of MEE6 is not a new phenomenon and many projects have faced similar issues. We have removed the Mee6 bot from the server and will never do a surprise mint.- Axie Infinity May 18, 2022 However, the official Twitter account of the project warned that many users might still see the fake message until they restart their Discord.Ģ/ The announcements have been deleted but some users may still see the message until they restart their Discord. The developers managed to remove the compromised MEE6 bot from the main server and deleted the fake messages as well. The attackers used the compromised bot to add permissions to a fake Jiho account and later issued a fake announcement regarding a mint.

MEE6 is a popular discord bot mainly used for automating roles and messages and is used by numerous crypto projects. Axie Infinity, the popular play-to-earn nonfungible token (NFT) game, faced another attack on its Discord server earlier on Wednesday, leading to a compromise of its MEE6 bot.

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