🚨 MistTrack Illicit Fund Analysis — Taiko Exploit 🕵️
On June 22, 2026, the Taiko protocol was exploited. Stolen funds were distributed across multiple attacker-controlled addresses.
The main attacker EOA 0x7506DeA0c38ca0B55364B22424374c5A1ae1B76a received various ERC-20 tokens (USDC, USDT, crvUSD, CRV, WBTC, wEETH, TAIKO, iZi) and quickly swapped most non-native assets for ETH via DEXs, accumulating ~615 ETH. Separately, 277.97 ETH was bridged out directly.
Total stolen: ≈ $1.74M (at incident-time prices).
✅ 777.977 ETH (~$1.35M) moved to:
0xa98035081fb739ebe9c8f80904668fb11438a846
✅ 1.99M TAIKO (~$194K) deposited to MEXC via:
0x5FBc60A12Bc6635E7d587d8DaC52e4b1388b4990
⚠️ Attacker EOA still holds: 117 ETH + 2.14M iZi + 0.531 wEETH
Key address to monitor:
0xa98035081fb739ebe9c8f80904668fb11438a846
We have blacklisted the related addresses and are actively monitoring them.