Tornado Cash
6 incidents, 1 live. 91 days since the last new one.
6 drains in the last 12 months
6 drains in the last 12 months
4 drains in 2026
2 drains in 2025
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Drift Protocol drained of $270M+ after signers pre-signed durable-nonce admin transactions
On Apr 1, 2026, an attacker took admin control of the Solana perps exchange Drift and drained its vaults of at least $270 million; SlowMist lists $285 million. Weeks earlier, Security Council signers had been led into 'unauthorized or misrepresented' approvals. Because those transactions used durable nonces, they stayed valid until the attacker chose to submit them. The funds were bridged to Ethereum, including more than $230 million in USDC via Circle's CCTP. No code bug was needed. The lesson for teams is that any durable-nonce signing request is high risk.
Drift Protocol (Security Council multisig)·Solana·$285M stolen·Since Apr 1, 2026·
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July 2026 1
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Dormant PancakeSwap LP loses $2.96M after signing a malicious EIP-7702 authorization
A long-inactive PancakeSwap liquidity provider lost about $2.96 million after signing a malicious EIP-7702 authorization, according to Specter monitoring reported by ChainCatcher on 23 July 2026. The attacker pulled about $1.48M of BSC-USD and $1.48M of BUSD liquidity, sent about $1.46M to Tornado Cash and still held about $1.48M in USDT at the time. An EIP-7702 authorization hands control of your whole account to a contract, so never sign one from a site you did not seek out.
A PancakeSwap liquidity provider (BNB Chain)·BNB Chain·$3.0M stolen·Since Jul 23, 2026·
January 2026 2
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Investor sends 4,556 ETH ($12.25M) to a poisoned lookalike address planted months earlier
On 30 January 2026 a victim sent 4,556 ETH, about $12.25M, to a lookalike of a regular counterparty's address. The attacker had seeded it into the victim's history with fake token transfers from February 2025 and ETH dust from October 2025; it matched the real address's first and last four characters. About 33 minutes later the ETH was swept to a new wallet, and the next day all of it went into Tornado Cash. Scam Sniffer flagged the loss.
Ethereum whale wallet·Ethereum·$12M stolen·Since Jan 30, 2026·
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User loses $1.08M in Aave LBTC (aEthLBTC) to a malicious permit signature
A user lost about 12 aEthLBTC (Aave's wrapped LBTC position on Ethereum), worth about $1.08 million, after signing a malicious permit signature, Scam Sniffer flagged on 3 January 2026. The thieves swapped the funds to ETH and sent them through Tornado Cash; SlowMist's founder said the group was not one of the mainstream drainer crews. Holders of Aave aTokens and other permit-enabled tokens should check what they sign and revoke unknown spenders.
An Aave aEthLBTC holder·Ethereum·$1.1M stolen·Since Jan 3, 2026·
December 2025 1
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Trader loses nearly $50M in USDT to address poisoning after copying a lookalike address from history
On 20 December 2025 a trader sent a 50 USDT test to the correct address, then 26 minutes later sent 49,999,950 USDT on Ethereum to a lookalike address the attacker had planted in their transaction history. The fake matched the first five and last four characters of the real address. Within 30 minutes the funds were swapped to DAI, then to about 16,690 ETH, and almost all of it went into Tornado Cash. Always check the full address, not just the start and end.
Ethereum USDT holder (funds withdrawn from Binance)·Ethereum·$50M stolen·Since Dec 20, 2025·
November 2025 1
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Whale's 1-of-1 Safe multisig drained of $27M+ after key compromise, ETH laundered via Tornado Cash
A private whale's Gnosis Safe on Ethereum, set up so a single signature could approve transactions, was taken over and drained of about $27.3M according to PeckShield; Hacken's forensics say losses may exceed $40M. Ownership passed to the attacker six minutes after the Safe was created on 4 November 2025, and the thief laundered ETH through Tornado Cash in batches while slowly unwinding a leveraged Aave position. A multisig with one signer is only as safe as that one key.
Private whale's Gnosis Safe multisig (Ethereum)·Ethereum·$27M stolen·Since Nov 4, 2025·
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