Security incident · 2023-08-26
PEPE
According to the public DefiLlama incident dataset, PEPE (Ethereum) suffered a security incident on 2023-08-26, with about $15.1M reported lost.
| Date | 2023-08-26 |
|---|---|
| Reported loss | $15.1M |
| Chain | Ethereum |
| Target type | Token |
| Technique class | Rugpull |
| Technique | Admin Drain |
| Bridge incident | No |
| Within 2023 | #18 by loss that year, 0.9% of all reported losses that year |
How this kind of attack works
The team or whoever held control took the funds themselves, for example by pulling liquidity or minting and dumping tokens.
Would a pre-payment check have helped
Rugpull contracts are usually new, with no history and no audit — visible warning signals before paying, used as signals only, never as proof.
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