Profanity Wallet Hack

Reported loss $978K
Access Control

What happened

732 $ETH was stolen from the wallet generated by the Profanity tool. The hacker compromised the private key and transferred funds to Tornado Cash.

Another hack occurred related to Profanity generated addresses. The hacker stole 977,550 $USD worth of assets from the vanity address and transferred them to Tornado Cash. The victim sent a transaction with the message, asking for a return of 50% of the stolen funds.

Attacker address:

Address 0x9731…39b9

Transactions to Tornado Cash:

Contract calls 0x9731…39b9

The Transaction with the message:

Tx 0xf7e7…e512

Protocol details

Classification Other
Protocol Type Exploit/Access control

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