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A Drift exploiter-linked wallet transferred 18,800 Ether, worth about $46 million, to Tornado Cash on Wednesday.
The exploiter transferred $61 million in Ether to the crypto mixer on Tuesday, taking its two-day total to 44,510 ETH, or $109 million, as blockchain data tracker Onchain Lens <a href="https://x.com/OnchainLens/status/2112822844547887371" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">said</a> on X.
The transfers to Tornado Cash make the funds harder to trace and represent nearly 37% of the $295 million stolen from decentralized exchange (DEX) Drift in April. The attack ranks as this year’s third-largest crypto hack, according to <a href="https://defillama.com/hacks" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">DefiLlama</a>.&nbsp;
The Drift exploiter-labelled wallets still held 56,569 Ether, worth roughly $138 million after Wednesday’s flurry of transfers, <a href="https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/drift-protocol-exploiter" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Arkham</a> data shows.
The Solana-based DEX <a href="https://www.drift.trade/updates/drift-recovery-update-june-3-2026" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">reported</a> about $295 million in losses from the April 1 hack, which its security consultant Mandiant attributed to a North Korean threat group.
Drift <a href="https://www.drift.trade/updates/dfx-claim-and-redemptions" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">opened</a> claims and redemptions for DFX recovery tokens on Oct. 1, giving affected users a claim on a pool that launched with about $3.1 million and receives exchange revenue and recovered funds.
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Drift exploiter sends $109M in Ether to Tornado Cash in 2 days

Cointelegraph

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