Hacker Moves Stolen Crypto Funds From Ronin Breach to Obfuscator

April 4, 2022, 4:02 PM UTC

A hacker moved some of the roughly $600 million in cryptocurrency stolen from the Axie Infinity play-to-earn gaming platform to a service that helps users mask transactions.

About 2,000 Ether tokens, valued at around $7 million, that were lifted from Axie Infinity’s Ronin software bridge last month were moved Monday to Tornado Cash, blockchain data shows. Tornado Cash founders did not respond Monday to a request for comment.

Tornado Cash is designed to preserve privacy on the Ethereum blockchain. Its technology breaks the link between the sender and receiver’s addresses on transactions sent to the Ethereum blockchain. The ...

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