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Crypto hackers buy Ethereum dip using stolen funds

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Arijit Sarkar1 hour agoCrypto hackers buy Ethereum dip using stolen fundsHackers exploit the market crash, using stolen funds from the 2022 Nomad bridge hack to purchase 16,892 ETH at a significant discount.3436 Total views5 Total sharesListen to article 0:00NewsOwn this piece of crypto historyCollect this article as NFTCOINTELEGRAPH IN YOUR SOCIAL FEEDFollow ourSubscribe onCryptocurrency hackers saw the ongoing crash market as an opportunity to buy up heavily discounted Ether using stolen funds from previous heists.


On Aug. 5, 16,892 Ether (ETH) was bought using stolen cryptocurrency funds linked to a hack on crypto bridge Nomad from August 2022. This comes as Ether lost over 20% of its value — from approximately $2,760 to $2,172 — in under 12 hours, according to data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView.Price chart of ETH/USD trading pair. Source: TradingViewBuying the dip with stolen funds


Blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain noted that the Nomad bridge exploiter used 39.75 million stolen Dai (DAI) tokens to buy 16,892 ETH. Soon after the purchase, the hacker began moving the stolen funds to crypto mixer Tornado Cash.


Crypto hackers tend to use crypto mixing services like Tornado Cash to deter onchain traceability and usually do so with no intention to return the stolen funds.Source: Lookonchain


Adding to Lookonchain’s findings, blockchain investigation firm PeckShield noted that the Nomad exploiter concurrently sent 17.75 ETH to an intermediary Ethereum address. At the time of writing, the hacker transferred approximately 2,400 ETH (worth around $7 million) to Tornado Cash.Source: PeckShieldAlert


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Moreover, stolen funds linked to the Pancake Bunny hack from three years ago are also on the move amid ongoing market uncertainty.


The hacker, intending to take advantage of lower crypto prices, swapped their stolen DAI token to ETH. However, blockchain investigator Officer CIA said that the 3.6 million DAI was sent to a DAI stablecoin address “by mistake.”


Pancake Bunny is a decentralized finance protocol on the BNB Smart Chain that had fallen victim to a flash loan attack in 2021.


It is important to note that sending crypto tokens to unsupported wallets may result in irreversible loss of funds.


Recently, on July 8, the Pancake Bunny hacker siphoned $2.9 million worth of Ether through Tornado Cash.


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