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Funds stolen in a prior exploit have reportedly been channeled into Tornado Cash, totalling an estimated 1,500 $BNB now within the mixer.
Deposits into Tornado Cash
According to an Oct. 11 from Certik, an exploit occurred on BH Token (BlackHole token), resulting in an exploiter (0xFDb) acquiring $1.2 million $USDT, which was later converted to $BNB and deposited into Tornado Cash, an Ethereum-based privacy tool.
#CertiKSkynetAlert 🚨
— CertiK Alert (@CertiKAlert) October 19, 2023
The BH Token exploiter has deposited stolen funds into @TornadoCash
So far, 1,500 $BNB has been deposited into the mixer
On 11th October, Black Hole token was exploited for 1.2m USDThttps://t.co/d9ZC6o2YsQ
Now, in a follow-up development dated Oct. 19, the malicious actor responsible for the theft has channeled stolen funds into Tornado Cash, has deposited a total of 1,500 $BNB into the mixing service so far.
A subject of another alert
Unfortunately, this is not the first time that Tornado Cash has made headlines for being part of a malicious attack in recent weeks.
On Sept. 11, another Certik alert went out about a wallet associated with over $24 million in stolen cryptocurrencies that had transferred 600 Ether (ETH) valued at approximately $936,000 into Tornado Cash.