Wormhole hacker moves $155M in biggest shift of stolen funds in months
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The hacker behind the $321 million Wormhole bridge attack has shifted a large chunk of stolen funds, with transaction data showing that $155 million worth of Ether (ETH) was transferred to an exchange (DEX) on Jan 23.
Notably, the Wormhole team has taken the opportunity to once again offer the hacker a bounty of $10 million if they return all the funds, leaving an embedded message conveying such in a transaction. The hacker behind the $321 million Wormhole bridge attack has shifted a large chunk of stolen funds, with transaction data showing that $155 million worth of Ether (ETH) was transferred to a decentralized exchange (DEX) on Jan 23. The Wormhole hack was the third largest crypto hack in 2022, after the protocol’s token bridge suffered an exploit on Feb. 2 that resulted in the loss of 120,000 Wrapped ETH (wETH), worth around worth $321 million.
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