The Drift Protocol exploiter deposited 19,600 ETH (~$46.81M) into Tornado Cash in 196 transactions on October 20, 2026, moving funds held for roughly 202 days, according to the our Tornado monitoring system.
On April 1, the Solana perpetuals platform suffered an estimated $285M theft following social engineering and an administrative takeover, according to Chainalysis.
The exploiter bridged part of the funds to Ethereum via CCTP, converted them into ETH and parked them in 0xaa843e…57c1. That wallet made its first outgoing transaction today.
As of October 20, the wallet still held approximately 6,114.15 ETH (~$14.60M).
Earlier today, a malicious actor gained unauthorized access to Drift Protocol through a novel attack involving durable nonces, resulting in a rapid takeover of Drift’s Security Council administrative powers.
This was a highly sophisticated operation that appears to have involved multi-week preparation and staged execution, including the use of durable nonce accounts to pre-sign transactions that delayed execution.