Hacker steals $950,000 from crypto vanity address as exploits continue

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A hacker has stolen $950,000 in ether from a crypto wallet via the same vanity address exploit linked to an attack on trading firm Wintermute last week. The hacker stole 732 ETH on Sept. 25 and sent it directly to the sanctioned cryptocurrency mixing service Tornado Cash, according to PeckShield citing on-chain data. Here it will have been mixed with other cryptocurrency and withdrawn to the hacker’s own wallet. The exploit was made possible due to the recent vanity address weakness that was picked up on GitHub in January but…

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