Gera Coin Hack

Reported loss $247K
Ethereum
Other

What happened

Gera Coin project was hacked through a private key leak. The $GERA token price dumped by over 98% on both Ethereum and BSC DEXes.

Gera Coin is a crypto payment platform. $GERA is a token, which is trading on Ethereum and Binance chains. As said on the official project's Twitter, the private key of the token deployer was leaked, so the hacker was able to transfer ownership to himself, and mint unlimited $GERA tokens. Consequently, the hacker minted 2,179,340,915 ERC20 GERA tokens on the Ethereum network and 275,900,000 GERA BEP20 tokens on the Binance network. The minted tokens were partially sold which led to a token price dumping of more than 98%. The total profit the hacker made is unknown.

Funds lost by chain:

BSC: 119,145 $USD lost and transferred through 1inch

Ethereum: 127,982 $USD lost and bridged through Celer Network

Attacker address:

Address 0x510e…61dc

Mint transactions:

Tx 0x621f…9676

Tx 0xc80f…7eac

Protocol details

Classification Token / Key Compromise
Protocol Type Exploit/Other
Affected asset / contract GERA
Implementation language Solidity
Protocol links Website @GeraCoin

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