Terk The Gorilla Hack
What happened
Terk The Gorilla (TERK) token's liquidity was siphoned off in a rug pull, leading to a loss of 122,440 $USD, or 65.35 ETH.
TERK, an ERC20 token trading on Uniswap, suffered an exit scam in the form of a rug pull on July 26, 2023. The token's deployer withdrew all liquidity from the LP pool and then moved the stolen funds through multiple EOA addresses. The assets were then distributed among a range of different addresses using CoinTool.
The total estimated loss from this rug pull is 122,440 $USD, or 65.35 ETH.
Deployer's Address:
https://etherscan.io/address/0x82d8eE74…fDEd92
Liquidity Removal Transaction:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x4358608c…4bd1b3
Funds Distribution Transaction:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x0a8f1862…d8bf6f
Case & protocol details
Evidence & learning
Sources and on-chain records
- report Report twitter.com
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