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Drift exploiter sends $61M ETH to Tornado Cash, holds $194M

A wallet linked to the Drift Protocol hack sent about $61 million in Ether (ETH) to Tornado Cash, a mixer that obscures transaction trails, according to Lookonchain. The wallet deposited 25,700 ETH over two hours on Tuesday, after two months of inactivity. Arkham data shows the exploiter's addresses still hold about 81,454 ETH, worth roughly $194 million. Drift, a Solana-based decentralized exchange, reported about $295 million in losses from the April 1 hack, which Mandiant later attributed to the North Korean threat group UNC6862. DefiLlama ranks it as the third-largest crypto hack of 2026.

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