WazirX hacker moves $6.5M in crypto to Tornado Cash

[Bitcoin Smith]

WazirX hacker moves $6.5M in crypto to Tornado Cash

A wallet address associated with the WazirX hacker has transferred $6.5 million worth of stolen ETH to Tornado Cash as the exchange opens up withdrawals to users ahead of time.

A wallet address associated with the hacker that stole over $235 million from Indian crypto exchange WazirX has just moved $6.5 million worth of funds through the sanctioned crypto mixer Tornado Cash.

In a Sept. 3 X post, blockchain security platform Cyvers shared that the hacker had transferred 2,600 Ether — worth $6.5 million at current prices — to Tornado Cash in a bid to launder the stolen funds.

Beginning on Sept. 2, the wallet address held a total of $6.7 million but now has just $154,000 after the hacker made 26 separate transfers of 100 ETH to Tornado Cash in just one hour, according to data from crypto tracking platform DeBank.

[TheUltraElite]

The exchange said that they are working closely with other exchanges - in order to prevent the dumping of coins on an exchange.

I dont know how much they can work with mixers. Most of them remain off the grid and dont get known till FBI cracks on them. Torando cash owners are publicly known on wikipedia.

The guy called Roman Semenov already has a nice FBI page on his name:
https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wcc/roman-semenov/download.pdf

Connection to the Lazarus group. What else do you need to get a recipe for disaster?

Sadly those who lost their money, are probably never getting it back and this is the hard truth about money being stored in exchange wallets. They have been prime hacking targets since a long time.