A digital wallet connected to the Aztec Private Rollup Bridge hacking incident has recently sent 300 ETH - worth approximately $572,000 - to the mixer protocol Tornado Cash. The movement of the stolen funds was carried out on August 8, 2026, marking a continuation of the hacker’s efforts to hide the trail of the fleeing assets, which began two months ago.
Transaction Split into Three Parts
According to a report from blockchain security firm PeckShield, the hacker did not send the hundreds of Ethereum coins in one large lump sum. Instead, they chose to split the transfer into three separate transactions. Each transaction was set to contain the same amount, exactly 100 ETH. The tactic of sending funds in waves into anonymous protocols like Tornado Cash is used to make it more difficult for on-chain researchers to trace the origin of the fund flows.
The additional transfer of 300 ETH changes the share of the total stolen assets currently being laundered. With the entry of this latest series of transactions, the cumulative total of funds deposited by the Aztec hacker into the Tornado Cash smart contract has reached 500 ETH. Based on the market value at the time of the transfer, the total assets sent to the mixer reach approximately $953,000, nearly half of all the Ethereum in the hacker’s possession.
Asset Losses from Legacy Product
The hack on the Aztec Private Rollup Bridge stemmed from a breach that occurred in June 2026. In that initial attack, the total loss reached $2.165 million. The assets carried away did not consist of just one type of cryptocurrency; the hacker made off with 1,158 ETH, 150,000 DAI in stablecoin, and a fraction of bitcoin in the form of 0.47 renBTC.
Aztec developers responded to this maneuver by drawing a clear line for their users. They released a statement clarifying that the Private Rollup bridge, which served as the exploit’s vulnerability point, is purely a legacy product of the project. The theft is confirmed to have no connection whatsoever to Aztec’s currently active network infrastructure, and has no impact on the utility of the AZTEC token ecosystem.
The remaining stolen assets continue to flow into the laundering channel, while the developers firmly close the door on their project’s past.
Reported from crypto.news.
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