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PEPE

$15.1M stolenSaturday, August 26, 2023 · 1087 days ago

Corpus updated 2026-08-17

Situation Summary

8/26/2023 — EXPLOIT DETECTED

$15.1M drained from PEPE on Ethereum.

TECHNIQUE: ADMIN DRAIN

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