{"id":31559,"date":"2025-06-12T14:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=31559"},"modified":"2025-06-12T14:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:16:47","slug":"bittrue-hacker-funnels-30m-through-tornado-cash-made-9-3m-by-trading-ether","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=31559","title":{"rendered":"Bittrue Hacker Funnels $30M Through Tornado Cash, Made $9.3M by Trading Ether"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A hacker who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2023\/04\/14\/crypto-exchange-bitrue-drained-of-23m-in-hack-of-ether-shiba-inu-other-tokens\">stole $23 million<\/a> from crypto exchange Bittrue in 2023 has started to launder the proceeds through Tornado Cash, according to Debank data cited by EmberCN.<\/p>\n<p>The hacker sent $30 million worth of ether ETH to the mixing service on Thursday, having sold the token in 2023, buying it back after the price fell and holding it through ether&#8217;s subsequent gains. <\/p>\n<p>The second-largest cryptocurrency by market value traded as high as $2,450 in 2023, and had dropped to as low as $1,472 in April before rebounding to trade as high as $2,873 this week, CoinDesk data show. The hacker made a $9.37 million in profit on their transaction, EmberCN said.<\/p>\n<p>Debank data shows that all of the stolen funds are now being dispersed through Tornado Cash. It is unclear whether the hacker was a part of a larger group or working solo.<\/p>\n<p>Crypto investors lost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/04\/02\/crypto-investors-lost-usd1-67b-to-hacks-and-exploits-in-q1-certik\">$1.67 billion to hacks and exploits<\/a> in the first quarter of this year as the industry struggled to constrain the criminal underworld despite a rapid advance in institutional adoption.<\/p>\n<p>The hacker&#8217;s on-chain trail on Etherscan shows that some funds were also <a href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/txs?a=0xe2b54712e3bce58283c8a190ec340aee4a293ed5\">laundered in April<\/a> and between that period there were also several deposits to decentralized derivatives exchange HyperLiquid. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hacker who stole $23 million from crypto exchange Bittrue in 2023 has started to launder the proceeds through Tornado Cash, according to Debank data cited by EmberCN. The hacker sent $30 million worth of ether ETH to the mixing service on Thursday, having sold the token in 2023, buying it back after the price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-31559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}