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Cysic dangles a 10% bounty, hacker pours loot into Tornado Cash

Cysic dangles a 10% bounty, hacker pours loot into Tornado Cash

CointelegraphCointelegraph2026/10/23 10:15

The wallet linked to the Cysic bridge exploit sent about $744,000 in cryptocurrencies to Tornado Cash on Friday after the Cysic Foundation offered the attacker a 10% recovery bounty.

The hacker exploited a bridge vulnerability to mint 10 million Cysic (CYS) tokens on BNB Smart Chain on Saturday. Cysic suspended the bridge and blacklisted the recipient address, freezing about 2.8 million of the newly minted tokens. The foundation said its mainnet and existing assets in user wallets were unaffected.

Tornado Cash pools deposits from multiple addresses, making the funds harder to trace. The attacker’s Ethereum wallet held just $45 in ETH at press time, according to Akham data.

Cointelegraph contacted the Cysic Foundation for comment on fund recovery efforts but did not receive a response by publication.

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