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Wallet Linked to Drift Exploit Sends $61 Million in Ethereum to Tornado Cash
What Decrypt reports, why it matters and what remains unconfirmed.
CryptoBy Jose Antonio Lanz at Decrypt
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What Decrypt reports
The North Korea-linked attacker behind April's $295 million Drift heist pushed 25,700 ETH through the mixer in two hours, and still controls roughly $198 million more.
The immediate significance
The report describes direct security exposure for users, funds or software. The immediate significance is the potential harm; the confirmed scale and any protective action require technical or primary evidence beyond the publisher summary.
What remains unknown
- The publisher summary does not contain the complete victim, transaction or technical evidence.
- The report does not establish the final loss or exposure, or whether remediation is complete.
- No matched primary document independently supporting the central claim is linked to this page.
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