Tornado Cash is under hacker attack

May 22, 2023
On the evening of May 20, an attacker seized control of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixing service using a malicious offer and seized more than 1 million votes. This situation caused the TRON token to drop by 40%.
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Information about the hacker attack was shared by an employee of the investment company Paradigm @samczsun on Twitter. The specialist reported that control over the management system was lost, and an attacker could drain all tokens and stop the router.

The hacker launched an offer with malicious code that mimicked an earlier version. Thanks to this, the attacker was able to gain access to all control voices.

As a result of criminal actions, the hacker received 483 thousand TRON from the crypto mixer management repository, 385 thousand TRON was sold and exchanged for 375 ETH.

Tornado Cash developers are trying to deploy a proposal to roll back changes, but for security reasons, users are recommended to withdraw assets from smart contracts. At the time of publication of the article, the TRON exchange rate has recovered by 10%.