Zhong's case closely mirrors the story of the earlier Silk Road hacker, referred to in court documents only as Individual X, who similarly exploited a vulnerability in the Silk Road to take nearly ...

Gardephe, Zhong, the 32-year-old alleged hacker of the internet marketplace Silk Road, was sentenced to "one year and one day in prison for committing wire fraud in September 2012 when he ...

Zhong, now 32, was sentenced to a year in federal prison last month for a hack that took place almost 11 years ago. His victim? Ross Ulbricht, the proprietor of the Silk Road dark web drug ...

Federal prosecutors have recovered $3.36 billion in bitcoin that was stolen a decade ago from Silk Road, the dark web bazaar responsible for distributing massive quantities of illegal drugs and ...

What had captured the investigators' attention was a 2012 hack in which someone had stolen 50,000 bitcoins from a site on the dark web called Silk Road, according to court documents CNBC reviewed.

"Silk Road was the Amazon of drug sites," former FBI ... pay me two bitcoin and I'll hack into your ex-wife or ex-husband's email account,'" Patel said. "…It was totally anonymous.

The group also sought to uncover the identity of “Individual X,” the hacker who turned over the Bitcoin after allegedly ...

Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the now-defunct darknet drug market previously known as Silk Road, thanked President Donald Trump for setting him free and hinted at what he has planned for his ...

While the hacker’s identity remains unknown, federal agents were able to trace the Bitcoin in their digital wallet back to the Silk Road, an infamous darknet drug trafficking website that was ...

Pardon is 'full and unconditional,' Trump says Silk Road allowed people to trade anonymously Drugs and illegal services were sold Jan 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned ...