Zklend Hacker loses 2,930 eth due to tornado cash

Zklend's explorator lost the 2,930 eth in a Phishing scam while trying to wash the stolen money using what they thought was an effective tornado.

According to a March 31 publication over x by Consensys, Fi.FI Antivirus Web3, the attacker enclosed the stolen funds on a false website of Cash Tornado, which resulted in an immediate loss. The data in the chain shows that after realizing the error, the hacker sent a desperate message to the address of the Zklend implemer, admitting his mistake.

“I tried to move the funds to the tornado, but I used a Phishing website, and all the funds have been lost. I am devastated,” the hacker wrote. They continued apologized by the attack and urged Zklend to focus their recovery efforts on Phishing's scam operators.

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More than $ 9.6 million were stolen in ethereum (eth) in the Zklend exploit, which took place on February 12. In an attempt to participate in negotiations, the Starknet -based loan protocol offered the Hacker a 10% reward in exchange for returning the remaining funds before February 14.

Zklend was forced to intensify the matter to the police because the hacker ignored the deadline. The platform announced that it had recruited security experts from the Starknet, Starkware and Binance Security Foundation to locate and recover the funds. But now that the stolen eth has been lost in a phishing scam, things seem to have taken a surprising turn.

Zklend's attack is part of a growing high -profile cryptocurrency exploits. According to Q1 2025 of Immunefi reportThe first three months of 2025 saw the worst quarter for cryptographic security violations in history, with computer pirates stealing $ 1.64 billion. Zklend's hack was the fifth largest feat of the quarter.

Decentralized finance protocols lost $ 106.8 million in 38 incidents, with ethereum and BNB (BNB) chain are the most specific networks. While Defi suffered multiple attacks, centralized financial platforms saw only two incidents, but resulted in an amazing loss of $ 1.5 billion in losses.