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Drift Exploit Wallet Moves $61M in Ethereum to Tornado Cash

The North Korea-linked attacker behind April’s $295 million Drift heist sent 25,700 ETH, worth roughly $61 million, through Tornado Cash within two hours. The wallet still holds about $198 million in assets from the exploit. The transfer marks one of the largest single laundering batches tied to the April incident.

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The scale and speed of this batch matter: routing tens of millions through Tornado Cash in a two-hour window signals that laundering capacity, not just stolen funds, is the constraint attackers are testing. This affects protocols and analytics firms tracking sanctioned mixing flows, and it complicates recovery prospects for Drift users. With roughly $198 million still sitting in the wallet, the open question is whether the remaining balance moves in similar bulk tranches or is dispersed more slowly — and whether mixers face any enforcement response that changes the calculus.

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