James Zhong

The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York has announced that the hacker responsible for the Silk Road marketplace breach has been sentenced to a year in prison for wire fraud charges. According to a statement released by the office of U.S. Attorney Damian Williams, James...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday that it seized around $3.3 billion in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) from a hacker who stole the cryptocurrency from the Silk Road dark web internet marketplace in September 2012. The hacker, identified as James Zhong, pled guilty before a New...