Tornado Cash News

Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev has reportedly appealed a guilty verdict in the Netherlands as the case sparked a crypto privacy discourse.

A hacker behind Poloniex, despite being allegedly identified, successfully laundered more than half of stolen funds via Tornado Cash. A hacker, who attacked Poloniex in late 2023 and was later allegedly identified, laundered over $66 million out of $100 million…

Instead of scapegoating developers like Perstev and Swartz, we as a community should focus on addressing the root causes of criminal activity and promoting responsible use of technology.

Alexey Pertsev has been sentenced to 64 months in prison over his involvement in developing the Ethereum privacy tool Tornado Cash. 

The Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange hacker transferred 100 ETH to the Tornado Cash mixer.

Crypto detective ZachXBT has identified the alleged PrismaFi hacker, exposing their involvement in the $11.1 million theft and subsequent demands. Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT uncovered an alleged attacker behind the PrismaFi hack, which left the protocol without $11.1 million worth of…

FARM, the native token of the yield farming protocol Harvest Finance, was trending in the U.S. as it was exchanging hands at $88, up 80% in the past day. At the time of writing, FARM had a 24-hour trading volume…

Permissionless money market protocol OpenLeverage has reportedly incurred a loss of $236,000, allegedly due to a hacker attack funded via Tornado Cash. Decentralized margin trading protocol OpenLeverage has apparently suffered a hacker attack, losing as much as $236,000 worth of…

Roman Storm, co-founder of Tornado Cash, seeks to dismiss charges accusing him of running a money laundering operation and violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

Stablecoin protocol Prisma Finance was breached earlier this week, causing the platform to lose almost $11.6 million.

PeckShield reported the movement of assets from addresses related to the hacking of the Prisma Finance protocol.

Exploiters who hacked Heco Bridge laundered the stolen assets through the controversial cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash.

North Korea’s hacker organization Lazarus is using Tornado Cash again despite U.S. sanctions against the popular cryptocurrency mixer.

The Arbitrum blockchain community initiated a vote on a proposal to fund the legal defense of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer team.

The WOOFi development team has acknowledged an exploit of its swap contract on Arbitrum while assuring users that all other WOO contracts remain safe. WOOFi’s smart contract for swapping tokens on Arbitrum WooPPV2 suffered an exploit, resulting in a loss…

American crowdfunding platform GoFundMe has terminated a fundraising campaign aimed at raising legal defense funds for Roman Storm and Alexey Pertsev, co-founder and developer, respectively, of the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash.  The fundraiser was initiated following a Jan. 22 video…