{"id":65507,"date":"2022-08-08T18:22:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T15:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=65507"},"modified":"2025-09-06T20:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T17:21:10","slug":"us-sanctions-tornado-cash-the-ethereum-mixer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/us-sanctions-tornado-cash-the-ethereum-mixer\/","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions Tornado Cash, the Ethereum mixer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 8, <span data-descr=\"Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury\" class=\"old_tooltip\">OFAC<\/span> added Tornado Cash&#8217;s website to the sanctions list, along with 39 Ethereum addresses and 6 USDC addresses linked to it.<\/p>\n<p>In total, the blocked wallets hold $437 million in stablecoins, ETH and WBTC.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency, since Tornado Cash&#8217;s creation in 2019, criminals have laundered more than <a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/jy0916\">$7 billion<\/a> using it. More than $455 million of them are linked to the Lazarus Group, a North Korean hacking collective.<\/p>\n<p>Tornado Cash was also used to launder more than $96 million obtained by cybercriminals in the Harmony network hack in June 2022. In addition, through the service at least $7.8 million were stolen <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/chainalysis-estimates-2bn-in-losses-from-cross-chain-protocol-hacks-so-far-this-year\">in the Nomad cross-chain protocol hack<\/a> in early August.<\/p>\n<p>The agency blocked all Tornado Cash property within the United States. Residents and citizens are prohibited from using the service.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in May, the U.S. Treasury added <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/blender-io-mixer-sanctioned-by-the-united-states\">the cryptocurrency mixer Blender.io<\/a> to the sanctions list, along with Bitcoin- and Ethereum-addresses linked to it. The agency says the service helped launder funds stolen by North Korean hackers and is believed to have been involved in ransomware attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 8, OFAC added Tornado Cash&#8217;s website to the sanctions list, along with 39 Ethereum and 6 USDC addresses linked to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1256,686,1314,1490],"class_list":["post-65507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-privacy-and-personal-data","tag-sanctions","tag-tornado-cash","tag-us-treasury"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"30","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65509,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65507\/revisions\/65509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}