>"Who hacked The DAO in 2016, diverting 3.6 million ether? We identify the apparent hacker — he denies it — by following a complicated trail of crypto transactions and using a previously undisclosed privacy-cracking forensics tool."

The DAO theft famously and controversially prompted Ethereum to do a hard fork—where the Ethereum network split into two as a way to restore the stolen funds which caused creation of Ethereum Classic (ETC).

So in short the DAO hacker used: * Shapeshift to convert ETC to BTC * Wasabi to mix the BTC * 4 Different central exchanges * Withdrawn to Grin for added privacy And yet he was a found. Thanks to chain analysis, insider cooperation and the hacker’s ego. It only takes one error.