Drift Hacker Resumes Activity After 3 Months, Sends Ethereum to Tornado Cash
Summary
- The Drift Protocol (DRIFT) hacker has resumed activity after about three months.
- An address linked to the hacker was sending Ethereum (ETH) to Tornado Cash several times a minute, in batches of 100 ETH each.
- Drift suffered a $285.3 million hack in April, one of the largest cryptocurrency hacks of the first half of the year.
Forecast Trend Report by Period
The hacker behind Drift Protocol (DRIFT) has resumed activity after about three months.
BlockBeats, citing Onchain Lens data, reported on July 23 that an address linked to the Drift hacker is transferring Ethereum (ETH) to crypto mixing protocol Tornado Cash. The transfers mark the hacker's first fund movements in the past three months.
The hacker has been depositing 100 ETH per transaction into the Tornado Cash router. The transfers were executed repeatedly several times a minute.
Drift suffered a $285.3 million hack in April. Along with the $291.3 million Kelp DAO hack, it ranks among the largest cryptocurrency hacks of the first half of the year.
Tornado Cash is a protocol that mixes cryptocurrency deposit and withdrawal records, making it difficult to trace links between the flow of funds and the parties behind the transactions.
