Wallet tied to Uranium Finance hacker reawakens after 647 days, shifting $3.3M
One of the wallets associated with the $50 million exploit of Uranium Finance in April 2021 appears to have awoken after 647 days of dormancy, with funds headed towards crypto mixer Tornado Cash.
The sudden move was highlighted on Mar. 7 by cyber security firms PeckShield and CertiK on their respective alert accounts on Twitter.
#PeckShieldAlert After 647 days, @UraniumFinance hacker started move 2250 ETH (~$3.35m) stolen funds into @TornadoCash. On April 28, 2021, the hacker drained approximately $50 million worth of tokens from Uranium's “pair contracts”. https://t.co/mBhMxmAdS5 pic.twitter.com/OOF3R0w3ll
According to data from Etherscan, the hacker moved the 2,250 Ether (ETH) or $3.35 million over a seven-hour period in transactions ranging from 1 ETH to 100 ETH — with all the funds heading to Tornado Cash.
This is, however, just one of the wallets associated with the hacker. Another Ethereum wallet linked to the hacker shows it was last active 159 days ago, with 5 ETH being sent to privacy-focused Ethereum zk-rollup on Aztec.
This marks yet another occasion in 2023 in which a hacker’s wallet has come out of dormancy after a lengthy hiatus. In January, the Wormhole hacker moved around $155 million worth of ETH almost a year after exploiting the Wormhole bridge for $321 million in early 2022.
The same month, a notorious hacker dubbed the “blockchain bandit” also moved around $90 million after a six-year slumber.
In February, the Wormhole hacker moved another $46 million worth of stolen funds, while popular blockchain sleuth ZacXBT highlighted via Twitter on Feb. 23 that “dormant funds left over” from the April 2018 $230 million Gate.io exchange hack by “North Korea began to move after over 4.5 years.”
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