Hacked: Is there any platform more vulnerable that OpenSea?

Despite being one of the biggest NFT marketplace and its popularity OpenSea is one of the weakest and vulnerability platform when it comes to security I don’t care what anyone else might say because the rate at which their platforms get hacked is really overwhelming. Their NFT marketplace is either hacked or full of plagiarists and now when we thought we have passed the issue of the marketplace getting hacked, the OpenSea discord channel gets hacked.

This isn’t the first of the discord channel getting hacked last month, something similar happen on the Bored Ape Yacht Club's Discord server, and a bored ape NFT was stolen. By now I thought OpenSea would have learnt to be careful but the same mistake has been made

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Yesterday, a message was sent to the OpenSea discord channel by a bot telling users that they have now partnered with YouTube which will be able to boost their presence and awareness in the NFT space, the message also said that users will be able to mint NFTs for free with a pass that will be released to them and other great features to be added to the marketplace.

The message also said "You are able to get this mint pass below for 100% free. There will only be 100 of these however, once they are gone they won't be coming back and you will have to purchase them off the OpenSea marketplace. Congratulations to those who get one."

First of all, the message alone is suspicious and sounds too good to be true, and along with the message was a link for the members of the group to click and it took them to a site called YouTube Genesis Mint Pass. And as usual, some people will click without proper research or information because they don’t want to miss the opportunity and also FOMO kicking in, especially when it’s a limited offer.

Sadly, some wallets have been hacked due to clicking the link or following whatever process they had to follow. I still wonder why some people still fall prey to suspicious links without doing some proper research, well maybe the trust they have for some platforms is too much but from the history of OpenSea lessons should have been learnt by now. The hack was so sad that one person lost $9,000 to it, the question is, how will OpenSea solve this now?

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