{"id":851559,"date":"2024-09-04T08:49:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T03:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=851559"},"modified":"2024-09-04T08:57:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T03:27:12","slug":"wazirx-hacker-behind-234-mn-crypto-theft-in-india-starts-washing-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/04\/wazirx-hacker-behind-234-mn-crypto-theft-in-india-starts-washing-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"WazirX hacker behind $234 mn crypto theft in India starts washing funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The attacker behind India\u2019s worst crypto hack has begun laundering some of the $234 million stolen in the incident from the WazirX exchange, acting the same day the platform briefed on efforts to recover funds. <\/p>\n<p>The perpetrator on Monday moved 2,500 Ether tokens worth about $6.3 million to Tornado Cash \u2014 a sanctioned service that blurs the origin of cryptoassets \u2014 soon after the briefing led by WazirX\u2019s Dubai-based founder Nischal Shetty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attacker behind India\u2019s worst crypto hack has begun laundering some of the $234 million stolen in the incident from the WazirX exchange, acting the same day the platform briefed on efforts to recover funds. The perpetrator on Monday moved 2,500 Ether tokens worth about $6.3 million to Tornado Cash \u2014 a sanctioned service that blurs the origin of cryptoassets \u2014 soon after the briefing led by WazirX\u2019s Dubai-based founder Nischal Shetty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}