Drift hacker washes $63M through Tornado Cash, leaving recovery claims in limbo

An Ethereum wallet linked to the April 1 exploit of crypto trading protocol Drift sent 25,710 ETH into the Tornado Cash mixer on Oct. 20, nearly emptying the address in its first outgoing Ethereum transactions. The address, which Etherscan labels “Drift Exploiter 5” , held about 3.98 ETH on Oct. 20. On-chain analysis profile Lookonchain separately reported holdings of 81,864 ETH across the exploiter wallets it tracks. The wallet made 258 successful deposits to the Tornado Cash router : 257 of 100 ETH each, followed by a final deposit of 10 ETH.