Tornado Cash's governance token holders will regain control of the protocol's operations after the attacker proposed to return control.
The proposal was approved with 517,000 token votes in favor and none against, and will be implemented in a day.
Although the governance takeover did not affect the protocol, the attacker stole 483,000 TORN tokens and exchanged most of them for 485 ETH ($890,000), with some of the ether routed through Tornado Cash to conceal its origin. Tornado Cash is a mixing service on the Ethereum blockchain that was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in August 2022 for alleged money laundering, and one of its developers is currently awaiting trial in the Netherlands on similar charges.
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