{"id":6619,"date":"2022-08-08T16:36:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T14:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/08\/us-sanctions-tornado-cash-over-fears-of-aiding-north-korean-hackers\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T16:36:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T14:36:23","slug":"us-sanctions-tornado-cash-over-fears-of-aiding-north-korean-hackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/08\/us-sanctions-tornado-cash-over-fears-of-aiding-north-korean-hackers\/","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions Tornado Cash over fears of aiding North Korean hackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US treasury says popular cryptocurrency service reportedly laundered more than $7bn worth of virtual currency<\/p>\n<p>The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on Tornado Cash, a popular cryptocurrency service that allows users to mask their transactions, accusing it of helping hackers, including from North Korea, to launder proceeds from their cybercrimes.<\/p>\n<p>A senior treasury department official said Tornado Cash, one of the largest virtual currency \u201cmixers\u201d identified as problematic by the treasury, has reportedly laundered more than $7bn worth of virtual currency since it was created in 2019.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/aug\/08\/us-sanctions-tornado-cash-north-korea-hackers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5a58760b880e0b7a085570427a13eb2254178ef3\/0_0_5568_3341\/master\/5568.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=588f57eae743153d0d0607f1715628e9\" title=\"US sanctions Tornado Cash over fears of aiding North Korean hackers\" \/>US treasury says popular cryptocurrency service reportedly laundered more than $7bn worth of virtual currency<br \/>\nThe United States on Monday imposed sanctions on Tornado Cash, a popular cryptocurrency service that allows users to mask their transactions, accusing it of helping hackers, including from North Korea, to launder proceeds from their cybercrimes.<br \/>\nA senior treasury department official said Tornado Cash, one of the largest virtual currency \u201cmixers\u201d identified as problematic by the treasury, has reportedly laundered more than $7bn worth of virtual currency since it was created in 2019. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US treasury says popular cryptocurrency service reportedly laundered more than $7bn worth of virtual currency The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on Tornado Cash, a popular cryptocurrency service that allows users to mask their transactions, accusing it of helping hackers, including from North Korea, to launder proceeds from their cybercrimes. A senior treasury department &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/08\/us-sanctions-tornado-cash-over-fears-of-aiding-north-korean-hackers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US sanctions Tornado Cash over fears of aiding North Korean hackers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}