The hacker who recently attacked WazirX, an Indian-based cryptocurrency exchange, and stole $230m has taken necessary steps to cover his track. On September 2nd, the hacker transferred more than $6.5 million worth of ETH using Tornado Cash, a popular cryptocurrency mixing platform that conceals the wallet addresses on the blockchain. This is perhaps a calculated effort to hamper tracing the stolen money.
The hacker split the stolen ether into 26 different transactions, and the proofs became more challenging to link sequentially.
The incident in July was due to a vulnerability that hackers took advantage of and got access to one of WazirX's multisig wallets. The hacker made away with over $230 million in different cryptocurrencies, with over $100 million in SHIB and $52 million in ether. According to the company's statement, the stolen assets included more than 45% of WazirX's total reserves in June 2024.
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