Deribit Hackers Transferred 1,610 ETH to Tornado Cash

Malicious actors transferred the funds obtained from the hack of the Deribit cryptocurrency derivatives exchange to the Tornado Cash mixer, according to data from Etherscan.

The coins were sent in 17 transfers, 16 of which were 100 ETH each. The transfers occurred on November 5, a few days after the hack of the platform.

The total amount of withdrawn cryptocurrency was 1610 ETH — 17.7% of the stolen sum (9080 ETH). According to PeckShield, the hackers also obtained 691 BTC.

#PeckShieldAlert @DeribitExchange has reported that their hot wallet was compromised, and ~$28M was stolen, including ~9,080 $ETH ($14.2M) and ~691 $BTC ($14.1M)
Exploiters’ address:https://t.co/pjI8h3YMYShttps://t.co/mDsb0qgALP https://t.co/Fw3pWSZJcQ pic.twitter.com/uNDa0I8lX0

— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) November 2, 2022

After the incident, Deribit paused deposits and withdrawals, restoring functionality a few days later — November 3.

WALLET MANAGEMENT RE-ENABLED
-Security incident update — II

1/9 Deribit has just re-opened regular withdrawals for BTC, ETH and USDC after we opened Copper Clearloop and Cobo withdrawals earlier.

— Deribit (@DeribitExchange) November 2, 2022

Earlier in October, an unknown transferred the funds stolen from the DeFi project TempleDAO to Tornado Cash.

Shortly before that, the mixing service was used by the hacker behind the decentralized exchange Transit Swap.

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