Drift exploiter moves $109M in Ether to Tornado Cash in two days

The wallets behind one of 2026’s biggest crypto heists have started emptying their pockets again. Over two days, addresses linked to the April exploit of Drift Protocol pushed roughly 44,510 ETH, worth about $109 million, into the Tornado Cash mixer. The final leg came Wednesday, with another $46 million sent through the mixer. Even after all that, the same wallets still held about $138 million in Ether, so the cleanup crew is far from finished. How the latest $109 million moved The activity ran from October 20 to October 21, 2026, according to on-chain tracking of the exploiter addresses. It arrived in two tranches rather than one large dump. The first batch was 25,710 ETH, valued at between $61 million and $63 million. The second, worth $46 million, followed the next day. After the transfers, the exploiter addresses retained an estimated 56,569 ETH, or roughly $138 million. A slow-motion laundering operation This is not the first time these wallets have visited the mixer. In July 2026, around 23,095 ETH, worth approximately $44 million at the time, took the same route into Tornado Cash. The original attack hit Drift Protocol on April 1, 2026. Drift is a decentralized exchange for...