Drift Exploiter Moves $61.6M in ETH to Tornado Cash as Recovery Pool Holds $3.1M of a $295M Loss

The wallet cluster linked to the April 1 exploit of Solana-based perpetuals protocol Drift resumed activity on October 20 after roughly two months of silence, depositing 25,700 ETH — about $61.56 million — into the privacy mixer Tornado Cash over a two-hour window, according to on-chain analyst Lookonchain. The deposits are the latest chapter in a recovery that has barely begun. Drift’s own records put the April theft at $295,706,374.93 across 19 assets, while the recovery pool meant to repay victims held about $3.1 million in USDT when claims opened on October 1 — roughly one cent for every dollar…