A schoolboy stole ETH from $340 thousand from the Creature Toadz project and returned them – Bits Media

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Школьник похитил ETH на $340 тысяч у проекта Creature Toadz и вернул их - Bits Media

The reputation of the Creature Toadz team was damaged even before the launch of the platform due to a young cybercriminal, who hacked the project's Discord account.

Before launching the Creature Toadz project, specupcoming NFT release, 
подвергся кибератаке. A hacker hacked into the team's Discord account and tricked project members into sending him more than 88 ETH (about $340 thousand).

Злоумышленник представился модератором и разместил ссылку якобы на платформу Creature Toadz для создания NFT. Through 45 минут после взлома аккаунта Creature Toadz сообщила о кибератаке, but by this time users had already sent about 88 ETH.

An anonymous NFT analyst under the username “OKHotshot” identified the identity of the hacker and reported, that the hacker was a Twitter user with the nickname HEERR. During a discussion on Twitter about the hacking of the project's account, HEERR publicly took responsibility for the Discord hack. OKHotShot
demanded that the hacker return the ether.

HEERR agreed to return users' money and said, that he was joking. OKHotshot stated, that she doesn’t believe him and is going to make his identity public, despite the recognition. HEERR asked not to do this and reported, what is being studied at school, to him 17 years and he planned to immediately return the broadcast.

Shortly after the Twitter discussion ended, the hacker returned the stolen ETH to Creature Toadz.. The Creature Toadz team has not yet begun to press charges or contact the police.. The developers plan to return money to platform users in the near future. Many users insist that, for a child hacker to be prosecuted for a cyber attack.

Recently, the DeFi Indexed Finance platform identified a hacker, who stole from her $16 million. Judging by the correspondence, the cybercriminal turned out to be a minor, who refused to return the money. Previously, cybersecurity company Lossless returned assets stolen from Cream Finance and offered a tool for identifying DeFi vulnerabilities.