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One of the year's biggest DeFi hacks just went live again.

The wallets tied to the Drift Protocol exploit have resumed moving funds after two months of quiet. Trackers spotted about 25,700 $ETH (~$61.6M) flowing into Tornado Cash Monday in two hours — first movement since late summer.

Lookonchain's tally says the same wallet group still controls around 81,864 ETH (~$195M). Earlier snapshots differ — Onchain Lens ~13,400 ETH, PeckShield ~21,300 ETH — because each was captured at a different point in the sweep. Exact figures are tracker-reported.

Why it matters: the April 1 attack took ~$285M from the Solana perps venue, and Mandiant attributed it to a North Korea-linked group. With ~$195M able to move at any moment, every laundering round is a live overhang. Drift's DFX recovery pool, opened Oct 1, holds barely $3.1M against nearly $300M in claims.

The trail is public and every move is watched — but a mixer transfer is not a sale. So does $61.6M through Tornado Cash still spook the market, or is this just exit-plumbing with no price impact? NFA. DYOR.

#Ethereum #CryptoNews #DeFiHack #TornadoCash

【Market Flash】$122.3 million, 520 transfers, 48 hours—the Drift hacker dumped the stolen funds into Tornado Cash, setting a two-year record for the largest hacker deposit into a mixer. Total losses from the original incident were $285 million, and Arkham is tracking the funds. CZ put it bluntly, but he’s right: no wallet is 100% secure. Can these funds ultimately be frozen? Comment 1 if you think they can, or 2 if you don’t.
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#Drift #TornadoCash #OnChainSecurity
(Source: CoinTribune)
⚠️Risk warning: The above is shared for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Investing involves risk; please exercise caution when entering the market.

🚨 The Drift hacker laundered $122 million in ETH over two days. Arkham says it’s the largest amount hackers have sent to Tornado Cash in a single instance in nearly two years!

📌 Facts (Sources: Arkham, Lookonchain, Cointelegraph)
• On October 20–21, 520 transfers sent about $122.3M worth of ETH into Tornado Cash
• After two months of inactivity, the funds suddenly started moving again, entering the pool in batches of 100 ETH
• About $295M was stolen in April, and nearly 40% has been laundered in just two days
• About 56,569 ETH (roughly $139M) remains in the address

🧠 My take
1️⃣ Mixing is only the first step. The real risk is what comes next: “cash out → sell off.” The remaining 56,000 ETH is potential selling pressure hanging over the market.
2️⃣ ETH is currently around $2,400 and BTC around $82,000. Risk appetite is already weak, so on-chain news can easily be amplified.
3️⃣ The biggest lesson for DeFi: being hacked isn’t the end of the story, and recovery often amounts to just pennies on the dollar.

⚠️ Watch: Can ETH hold $2,400? Do funds show up at exchange deposit addresses after mixing?

Do you think this money will eventually hit the market, or just sit there? Share your thoughts in the comments 👇

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#Drift #TornadoCash #On-chain data

Just my personal opinion; not investment advice

The hacker is back on the job: after lying low for two months, they funneled 25,700 $ETH into Tornado Cash in just two hours yesterday—worth $61 million—and even did it “100 coins at a time,” like a supermarket cashier counting bills.

Time for a cast of characters—
Victim: My money’s going through the washing machine
On-chain sleuth: Counting the wrappers from batch No. 257
Tornado Cash: Thanks for your business. Please come again

The gut punch: after depositing this batch, their wallet still has 81,864 coins (about $195 million). In the case involving roughly $285 million in April, law enforcement has frozen just $9.2 million so far.

Poll time: Once this $61 million’s been through the wash, will it be dumped straight onto the market or left sitting tight? A) Dump B) Sit tight

$ETH $BTC #黑客 #TornadoCash #Ethereum

🌪️ After six months of silence, the Drift hacker has started laundering funds through Tornado Cash

Remember when Solana perpetuals exchange Drift was hacked for about $285 million on April 1 this year? Today (October 20), on-chain tracking revealed that the wallets involved have started depositing ETH into the Tornado Cash mixer in batches.

🔹 Amount deposited: About 13,400 to 25,700 ETH, worth approximately $32 million to $61.56 million
🔹 Method: 100 ETH per transaction, with multiple transactions made in quick succession
🔹 Another wallet still holds about $195 million worth of ETH

The attack wasn’t caused by a code vulnerability, but by social engineering: multisig signers were compromised, and the attacker introduced a fake token, drained assets including USDC, then bridged them to Ethereum. Drift has since rebranded as Velocity DEX, rebuilt its security infrastructure, and is working to reimburse affected users.

My take: Once funds enter a mixer, they become much harder to trace, further reducing the chances of recovering them. The key lesson here is that multisig doesn’t automatically mean security—the people signing are the weakest link.

Do you think there’s still a chance of recovering the stolen funds? What should projects do to defend against social engineering attacks? Let’s discuss in the comments 👇

#Drift #链上安全 #TornadoCash #DeFi

Whale Data Monitoring

The hacker who stole $270M by exploiting a Drift Protocol vulnerability is moving $ETH to #TornadoCash after two months of inactivity.

Over the past two hours, the hacker has deposited 25,700 $ETH (worth $61M) into #TornadoCash and still holds 81,864 $ETH (worth $195M).

【Market Flash】After months of silence, the Drift attacker is on the move again: at least 13,400 ETH, worth about $32 million, has just been transferred to Tornado Cash, possibly to erase the trail. According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, wallets linked to the attacker still hold about $224.59 million, including approximately 93,965 ETH worth around $224.04 million. In late July, the attacker had already transferred about $44.4 million. This isn’t an exit—it’s a series of transfers. How much of these stolen funds do you think can ultimately be recovered? Reply 1 if you think they can be recovered; reply 2 if you think it’ll be difficult.
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#Drift协议 #TornadoCash #On-chain Security
(Source: Wu Says Blockchain / Onchain Lens)
⚠️Risk warning: The above is shared for market information purposes only and does not constitute investment advice. Investing involves risks; exercise caution when entering the market.

A whale sent 5,170 coins of $ETH to Tornado Cash in batches, worth about $12.82 million—is this privacy self-protection or a dress rehearsal for money laundering?

On-chain investigator Aunt Ai detected that the address accumulated 5,147 coins at an average price of about $1,886 on August 12–13. On October 13, it transferred them all to a mixer in batches of 100. The position is now up about $3.06 million. No exchange transfers, no cashing out—just straight into “stealth” mode. The purpose is unclear.

Even more intriguing: that same week, the attacker behind the Ledger hack had just sent 2,990 ETH (about $7.45 million) into the very same mixer, according to Specter monitoring on October 9–10.

One side is clean money earned fair and square; the other is stolen loot. Yet both are taking the same stealth route—which is privacy tooling really for? The comments are heating up.

$BTC $ETH #TornadoCash

October 10: The Triple-A attacker has transferred 4,970 ETH (approximately $12.4 million) into Tornado Cash.

The attacker stole about $11.8 million from the Triple-A treasury in July, bridged it to Ethereum for exchange; on September 6, it was split into two addresses, and on October 9, merged into the same wallet, then deposited into Tornado Cash in 49 transactions of 100 ETH and 7 transactions of 10 ETH, with one transaction containing assets previously withdrawn from the mixer.

#加密货币 #TornadoCash

⚠️ On-chain security alert: The Triple-A attacker has transferred 4,970 ETH (approximately $12.4 million) to Tornado Cash, presumably to mix the funds.

#加密货币 #ETH #TornadoCash #On-chainSecurity

Washington dropped a mixer rule this week, but the Tornado Cash case is not going away.

Per Cointelegraph, the DOJ cited a September 25 appeals ruling that upheld the Bitcoin Fog conviction to argue that Roman Storm's case belongs in New York. Storm was convicted in August 2025 on one count, the jury deadlocked on others, his acquittal motion is still pending, and a retrial is set for April 26, 2027.

In my view, the split is striking: Treasury is stepping back from new mixer reporting while prosecutors keep pressing a case over code built for $ETH users. That tension will shape how privacy tools get built in the US.

💬 Should writing privacy software ever be treated as running a money business?

#TornadoCash #Privacy

The DOJ is using a Bitcoin Fog ruling to argue that Roman Storm's alleged Tornado Cash activities establish jurisdiction in New York, which could significantly complicate his legal defense.

#TornadoCash #RegulatoryRisk ‎

⚖️ DOJ Pushes Ahead With Tornado Cash Case Despite Treasury Policy Retreat

The U.S. Department of Justice is continuing its criminal prosecution of Tornado Cash even as the Treasury Department has dropped its proposed mixer reporting requirements.

A venue filing dated October 5 cited the Bitcoin Fog appeal as legal precedent, signalling that the DOJ views the narrowing of Treasury's privacy policies as irrelevant to its own case. The move confirms that federal prosecutors are pursuing the Tornado Cash matter independently of the regulatory rollback at Treasury.#USDepartment #TornadoCash #crypto_moj $NVDAB $ETH

Roman Storm wants to walk free? It’s looking doubtful. The DOJ just brought out the Bitcoin Fog precedent, and is holding firm on keeping the case in New York.

The pressure from the Rule 29 motion is mounting, and the “writing code = aiding money laundering” argument now has another precedent backing it up. This is genuinely bad news for Tornado Cash and the entire privacy developer community. Don’t rush to catch a falling knife before the regulatory hammer drops—the privacy narrative is still taking a beating.

$TORN $ETH #TornadoCash #RomanStorm

The U.S. Department of Justice cited a recent appellate ruling in the Bitcoin Fog case as supplemental authority in its opposition to Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm’s motion for acquittal. On September 25, the appeals court upheld the conviction and sentence of Bitcoin Fog operator Roman Sterlingov. Prosecutors said the ruling “directly supports” their position: witness Shakeeb Ahmed testified that he had used Tornado Cash at a Manhattan apartment, which is sufficient to establish the Southern District of New York’s jurisdiction over the charges. Storm was convicted in August 2025 of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business. The jury deadlocked on two other charges, and a retrial is tentatively scheduled for April 26, 2027. #TornadoCash #CryptoRegulation (Source: X)

FinCEN just withdrew its proposal to regulate mixers, but an SDNY filing shows the DOJ is still doggedly pursuing its case against Roman Storm over Tornado Cash.

Regulators may be backing off, but the criminal prosecution continues. The U.S. hasn’t changed its stance on privacy coins at all—the rules can be withdrawn, but the cases have to be pursued to the bitter end. If Storm is convicted, every developer who writes privacy protocols will have to wonder whether they could be next.

Don’t get your hopes up for privacy in the short term.

$TORN #TornadoCash

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📊 Sanctioned so hard they can’t even renew a domain, Tornado Cash users were phished for $2.3 million

Tornado Cash, that mixer sanctioned by OFAC. After the sanctions, the official domain expired, the team couldn’t renew it, and it was immediately hijacked by someone else.

On August 20, a user clicked an old browser bookmark saved for years and landed on a fake tornado.cash. The page looked identical; the user continued depositing, while the attacker secretly captured the private note needed to withdraw.

1,010 ETH were gone—about $2.3 million at current prices. One user. One click.

This isn’t an isolated case. Over the past 12 months, phishing scams using similar expired domains have collectively siphoned off nearly 4,000 ETH.

Following the money on-chain, it was first converted to BTC, sent through Whirlpool for a round of mixing, and then returned to Ethereum and Tornado Cash. The mixer’s users were laundered through the mixer.

Sanctions were meant to choke off the protocol. The protocol didn’t die—ordinary people who used it paid the price first. The team couldn’t even keep the ability to maintain its own website, and the blame was dumped entirely on retail users.

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$ETH JUST SAW A $10.5M BUY AT 1,757 – BUT THE SELLER USED TORNADO CASH 🧐

Someone moved $10.54M to buy 6,001 ETH at exactly $1,757 per coin, then mixed it through Tornado Cash. That’s a massive bid at a level that’s been a key zone on the monthly.

Whales don’t dump into privacy mixers unless they plan to exit quietly. The question is whether this was accumulation or a liquidation cover before a bigger move.

Does a coordinated buy at this level make you want to take a position, or does the mixer use scare you off?

Not financial advice. Always manage your risk.

#ETH #WhaleAlert #TornadoCash #CryptoMarket

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