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 ...

The hack is just latest in a series of mishaps, crackdowns and scams that have roiled the "dark web" drug market since the shutdown of the original Silk Road anonymous drug site in October by the FBI.

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 ...

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

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 ...

"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 end of 2024 saw a US court authorizing the Justice Department of their plans to sell 69,370 Bitcoins back to the market, after seizing the stolen assets from a Silk Road hack more than a ...

The hacker, known as “Individual X,” surrendered the funds after US officials traced the stolen Bitcoin linked to wallet addresses that they used to interact with Ross Ulbricht's Silk Road ...

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 ...

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 ...