The hackers behind Cork Protocol’s $12 million exploit sent $11 million worth of stolen ether (ETH) through Tornado Cash, donating $24,000 to the founder of Crypto Mixer’s founder’s legal fund.
Crypto security company Peckshield claimed that the exploit had moved 4,520 ETH to Tornado Cash so far. Today they sent 1,410 ETH to a mixer worth around $3.4 million.
Peckshield also reported that the Cork Protocol attacker has donated over $24,000 in 10 ETH to a legal fund established by Roman Storm, who is currently being charged in the United States.
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Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has made $500,000 to the fund through the Ethereum Foundation, pledged to coincide with a $750,000 public donation, possibly including hacker contributions.
The fund has so far raised $722,793. It’s just over $1.2 million from its $2 million target.
The Cork Protocol was hacked through an access control vulnerability that was not flagged in audits. The cork team tried to reach out to the exploit earlier this week, but that has not stopped them from depositing their funds in Tornado cash.
Tornado Cash Appeal challenges evidence
In a similar case in Amsterdam, the tornado co-founder Alexei Pertef, was found guilty by a ju-san on money laundering charges, but is reportedly planning to challenge the evidence from the trial and appeal his case.
Bitcoin Core developer Sjors Provooost attended an appeal hearing and angeredly told what had happened. He said Perstev’s defenses are “questing which particular transactions came from the hack, where they went and how to reconstruct the traces to show that this money has passed through the Tornado Cash service.”
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He said, “The defense argues that it is not enough for the government to simply point to some media articles to prove that these crimes actually happened, and seeks conviction in a statement from one court or at least a victim.”
To achieve this, they are looking for Access to government-level use of Chain Orisis software. Provoost said he likely requested that after receiving missing key information in a spreadsheet, such as a transaction hash, he would pull this back into the crypto transaction.
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