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<p class="is-style-lead">Funds stolen in a prior exploit have reportedly been channeled into Tornado Cash, totalling an estimated 1,500 BNB now within the mixer.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="deposits-into-tornado-cash">Deposits into Tornado Cash</h2>
<p>According to an Oct. 11 from Certik, an exploit occurred on BH Token (BlackHole token), resulting in an exploiter (0xFDb) acquiring $1.2 million USDT, which was later converted to BNB and deposited into Tornado Cash, an Ethereum-based privacy tool.</p>
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<p>Now, in a follow-up development dated Oct. 19, the malicious actor responsible for the theft has channeled stolen funds into Tornado Cash, has deposited a total of 1,500 BNB into the mixing service so far.&nbsp;</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="a-subject-of-another-alert">A subject of another alert</h2>
<p>Unfortunately, this is not the first time that Tornado Cash has made headlines for being part of a malicious attack in recent weeks.</p>
<p>You might also like: <a href="https://crypto.news/crypto-mixer-tornado-cash-handled-over-77m-in-past-30-days/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> Crypto mixer Tornado Cash handled over $77m in past 30 days </a></p>
<p>On Sept. 11, another&nbsp;<a href="https://crypto.news/600-ether-from-phishing-exploit-deposited-into-tornado-cash/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Certik alert</a>&nbsp;went out about a wallet associated with over $24 million in stolen cryptocurrencies that had transferred 600 Ether (ETH) valued at approximately $936,000 into Tornado Cash.</p>
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<p>Earlier in August, Tornado Cash founders also faced charges for money laundering tied to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/23/tornado-cash-founders-charged-with-laundering-more-than-1-billion-including-millions-for-north-korea.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">North Korea</a>.</p>
<p>Read more: <a href="https://crypto.news/600-ether-from-phishing-exploit-deposited-into-tornado-cash/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> 600 Ether from phishing exploit deposited into Tornado Cash </a></p>

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