US Justice Department Investigation Leads To Takedown Of Darknet Cryptocurrency Mixer That Processed Over $3 Billion Of Unlawful Transactions - Vietnamese Operator Of Chipmixer Charged With Laundering Money For Ransomware Perpetrators, Darknet Markets, Fraudsters, And State-Sponsored

<p><span>The Justice Department announced today a coordinated international takedown of ChipMixer, a darknet cryptocurrency &ldquo;mixing&rdquo; service responsible for laundering more than $3 billion worth of cryptocurrency, between 2017 and the present, in furtherance of, among other activities, ransomware, darknet market, fraud, cryptocurrency heists and other hacking schemes. The operation involved U.S. federal law enforcement&rsquo;s court-authorized seizure of two domains that directed users to the ChipMixer service and one Github account, as well as the German Federal Criminal Police&rsquo;s (the Bundeskriminalamt) seizure of the ChipMixer back-end servers and more than $46 million in cryptocurrency.&nbsp;</span></p>

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