Triple-A attacker moves $12.4m in ETH to Tornado Cash
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A wallet linked to Triple-A’s July treasury breach moved 4,970 ETH, worth about $12.4 million, into Tornado Cash. The transfers were tracked in October after the funds had been consolidated on Oct. 9. A blockchain security firm identified the activity as tied to the breach and said the ETH was split across dozens of deposits.
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Users and anyone following Triple-A’s treasury incident now see a large amount of ETH moved through Tornado Cash after the July breach. That makes the chain activity visible to the broader crypto sector and to monitors watching sanctioned or privacy-focused transfers.
What changed in practice is that the funds were consolidated on Oct. 9 and then sent out in 56 transactions, rather than appearing as one transfer. The underlying July theft remains the same event in the background, but the later movement shows a new transaction path for the same assets.
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