Stolen Ethereum laundering resumes as 25,700 ETH flow into Tornado Cash mixer

Wallets linked to the Drift Protocol hack resumed laundering stolen Ethereum on October 20, 2026, after roughly two months of inactivity. Onchain Lens initially tracked 13,400 ETH, worth about $32 million , entering Tornado Cash; a later Lookonchain update put deposits across the exploiter’s wallets at 25,700 ETH, valued at approximately $61.56 million. Key takeaways Lookonchain tracked 25,700 ETH entering Tornado Cash over two hours. The Drift Protocol attack took $285 million on April 1, 2026. Lookonchain estimated that attacker wallets still held 81,864 ETH. Drift’s Tether-supported buyback fund covers about 1% of users’ net losses.

Source: The Cryptonomist