North Korean Hackers reportedly used CoinJoin transactions on March 11th to purchase 43.76 billion PEPE coins, worth $3.1 million.

BlockBeats News, March 16th, according to on-chain sleuth ZachXBT's post on his personal channel, a highly credible Tornado Cash asset theft investigation shows that on March 11, 2025, after using Tornado Cash to complete a coin mixing transaction, a North Korean hacker used part of the ETH funds to purchase 437.6 billion PEPE tokens, amounting to $3.1 million. A more detailed analysis reveals that the North Korean hacker fell victim to an exploit in the Tornado Cash user interface.

In previous news, according to LookIntoChain monitoring, 3 wallets made large purchases of 689.79 billion PEPE tokens (approximately $4.3 million in total value), and all funds originated from Tornado Cash.