According to BlockBeats, on August 26, Cointelegraph reported that the official Discord servers of Avalanche and ZKsync were hacked less than 48 hours after a similar attack on Polygon's Discord. On August 25, Avalanche's official X account announced the server breach, warning users not to click on any links. The attackers posted fraudulent token distribution links on both platforms. Avalanche community leader Ben Well stated that the issue has been resolved and the server is being restored.
Previously, on August 24, Polygon's Chief Information Security Officer Mudit Gupta announced on social media that the Polygon community Discord had been attacked. He advised users not to click on any links and mentioned that the team was working to regain control of the server.
