{"id":673322,"date":"2026-10-20T12:52:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/drift-exploiter-sends-61m-eth-to-tornado-cash-holds-194m\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:52:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:52:47","slug":"drift-exploiter-sends-61m-eth-to-tornado-cash-holds-194m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/drift-exploiter-sends-61m-eth-to-tornado-cash-holds-194m\/","title":{"rendered":"Drift exploiter sends $61M ETH to Tornado Cash, holds $194M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/2026\/09\/01M2FK6GAEQRFQBFCE1EBGAMG5\/hi-what-is-a-crypto-money-mule-scam-and-how-to-avoid-it-1.jpg\" alt=\"Drift exploiter sends $61M ETH to Tornado Cash, holds $194M \" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The April 1 hack caused about $295 million in losses and was later attributed to a North Korean threat group in a Mandiant investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A wallet linked to the Drift Protocol hack sent about $61 million in Ether (ETH) to Tornado Cash, a service that obscures transaction trails.<\/p>\n<p>The wallet deposited 25,700 ETH to the cryptocurrency mixer over two hours on Tuesday after two months of inactivity, blockchain analytics platform Lookonchain said in an X <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lookonchain\/status\/2112475259907846217\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The exploiter\u2019s addresses held about 81,454 Ether, worth roughly $194 million, according to Arkham. Crypto mixers pool funds from multiple addresses and obscure fund trails, making tracing harder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/drift-exploiter-eth-tornado-cash\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The April 1 hack caused about $295 million in losses and was later attributed to a North Korean threat group in a Mandiant investigation. A wallet linked to the Drift Protocol hack sent about $61 million in Ether (ETH) to Tornado Cash, a service that obscures transaction trails. The wallet deposited 25,700 ETH to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":673323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-673322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}