Hacker Who Robbed Crypto Laundering Service Tornado Cash Uses It to Mask Loot
- Attacker took control of Tornado Cash then relinquished power
- Tokens were pilfered in the process and washed through mixer
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A hacker who took control of the sanctioned crypto mixer Tornado Cash has relinquished power over the service while also using the protocol to launder the digital tokens plundered during the attack.
The exploiter stole 483,000 of the protocol’s native TORN coins and swapped a large part of the stash into Ether before laundering 472 of the latter — worth about $900,000 — through Tornado Cash, according to research firm Nansen.