Experts: FBI Not Bidding On Hacked NSA Code With Bitcoin From Silk Road Seizure
The FBI is not bidding on stolen National Security Agency (NSA) source code with bitcoins seized from Silk Road, contrary to a widely reported allegation. That’s according to security experts interviewed by The Hill. The allegation emerged when a bitcoin user sent money to both an NSA source code account and the seized bitcoin account, but no money changed between the accounts, according to experts. NSA Source Code Hacked. Last week, a group called the Shadow Brokers claimed to have hacked NSA source code and offered to sell hacked source code in exchange for the most generous financial....
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The man who stole over 50,000 bitcoins from the Silk Road marketplace has pleaded guilty. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, “the seizure was then the largest cryptocurrency seizure” in the history of the DOJ and “remains the department’s second-largest financial seizure ever.”
Silk Road Exploiter Pleads Guilty
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday that James Zhong pleaded guilty on Friday “to committing wire fraud in September 2012 when he unlawfully obtained over 50,000 bitcoin from the Silk Road dark web....
Analytics firm Coinfirm says the US Department of Justice (DOJ)’s seizure of digital assets associated with the now-defunct Silk Road left behind tokens worth millions of dollars. According to Coinfirm, there are still valuable balances held on forked addresses originating from that wallet. On November 5, the DOJ announced that a hacker known as Individual X had cooperated with law enforcement and agreed to relinquish control of over $1 billion worth of bitcoins. At the time of the seizure of the 69,370 BTC, news.Bitcoin.com reported the DOJ confirming that 1HQ3-the address that was....
The seizure on Tuesday, tied to the Silk Road marketplace, is reported to be the largest the U.S. has ever effected
Back in October many of the trolls and ents of Reddit muttered and mumbled to themselves about joining together in a class action lawsuit to claim pieces of the 29000 Bitcoins seized by the FBI on October 2nd, 2013. The 29,000 Bitcoins taken from Silk Road servers on that day belonged to the international motley crew of buyers and sellers on Silk Road. Many of those Bitcoins were tied up in escrow in ongoing deals, or simply sitting in the accounts of buyers and sellers waiting for withdrawal or use. Nothing came of all the hubbub raised by Silk Road users about their Bitcoins being swept....
Silk Road 2 - the follow-up dark web marketplace that took the place of the now-infamous Silk Road run by Dread Pirate Roberts - has reportedly been hacked. The news was first reported by DeepDotWeb. The news was delivered by 'Defcon' on the Silk Road 2 forums (TOR link): I am sweating as I write this. Christmas brought grave news. I cannot adequately express how deeply honored I was by your unconditional support of my staff. I do not expect the same reaction to today's revelations. This movement is built on integrity, and I feel obligated to be forthright with you. I held myself to a high....