Wallet tied to Uranium Finance hacker reawakens after 647 days, shifting $3.3M

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The Uranium Finance hacker sent $3.35 million worth of ETH to Tornado Cash from a wallet that essentially hadn’t been touched since the hack back in April 2021.

) 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 beingThis 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 aroundalmost 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., 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.”

Dormant funds left over from the April 2018 Gate $230m hack by North Korea began to move after over 4.5 years.

 

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So FarmLord decided to add to his BzX movements a little more provocations :)

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