{"id":78903,"date":"2023-05-17T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=78903"},"modified":"2025-09-11T08:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T05:01:36","slug":"uranium-finance-hacker-moves-650-eth-to-tornado-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/uranium-finance-hacker-moves-650-eth-to-tornado-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Uranium Finance hacker moves 650 ETH to Tornado Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 16, a wallet linked to the Uranium Finance protocol hack moved 650 ETH (~$1.18 million) to the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PeckShieldAlert?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PeckShieldAlert<\/a> Another 100 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ETH&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$ETH<\/a> into Tornado Cash from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UraniumFinance?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UraniumFinance<\/a> exploiter (a total of 650 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ETH&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$ETH<\/a> valued at ~$1.18M)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D5khyI8ret\">https:\/\/t.co\/D5khyI8ret<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UraniumFinance?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UraniumFinance<\/a> exploiter currently holds $124K worth of cryptos, including ~110K stablecoins and ~7.8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ETH&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$ETH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w7f6YSVd0b\">pic.twitter.com\/w7f6YSVd0b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeckShieldAlert\/status\/1658364718137118720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to Etherscan data, within 30 minutes the attacker executed ten transactions of 100 ETH and 10 ETH.<\/p>\n<p>In three transfers, the wallet owner swapped USDT worth $1.19 million for 657 ETH.<\/p>\n<p>PeckShield analysts estimate that the Uranium Finance hacker currently holds crypto assets worth $124,000, including $109,500 in stablecoins and around 7.8 ETH.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2021, the Uranium Finance protocol hack occurred on 28 April 2021, resulting in the network losing $50 million. The hacker exploited a vulnerability arising when moving assets to a new fork of the project.<\/p>\n<p>On 7 March 2023, the address linked to the Uranium Finance hack <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/hacker-behind-uranium-finance-breach-moves-3-3m-to-tornado-cash\">moved 2250 ETH<\/a> to Tornado Cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 16, a wallet linked to the Uranium Finance hack moved 650 ETH (~$1.18 million) to the Tornado Cash mixer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,1093,1314],"class_list":["post-78903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-defi","tag-tornado-cash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"13","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78905,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78903\/revisions\/78905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}