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PeopleDAO hacked via Google Sheets, $120,000 worth of ether stolen

Posted on:March 13, 2023 at 08:33 AM

TLDR: PeopleDAO, a group formed to buy a copy of the U.S. Constitution, lost 76.5 ETH ($120,000) to a social engineering hack on March 6 that targeted the project’s monthly contributor payout form on Google Sheets. The project team mistakenly shared a link to the payout form with edit access to a public channel on the project’s Discord Server, allowing the hacker to insert their address and a 76.5 ETH payment. The hacker subsequently transferred the ether to two centralized exchanges (HitBTC and Binance). PeopleDAO is working with security experts to track the hacker and has offered a 10% white hat bounty to the hacker should they return the funds. The project is taking steps to prevent similar mishaps in the future.

Link to original article: https://www.theblock.co/post/219214/peopledao-hacked-via-google-sheets