{"id":75630,"date":"2023-03-15T18:56:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T16:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=75630"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:44:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:44:33","slug":"u-s-and-german-authorities-seize-chipmixer-cryptocurrency-mixer-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/u-s-and-german-authorities-seize-chipmixer-cryptocurrency-mixer-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. and German authorities seize ChipMixer cryptocurrency-mixer servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German and U.S. authorities, with support from Belgium, Poland and Switzerland, shut down the ChipMixer cryptocurrency-mixer infrastructure. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europol.europa.eu\/media-press\/newsroom\/news\/one-of-darkwebs-largest-cryptocurrency-laundromats-washed-out\">\u0415\u0432\u0440\u043e\u043f\u043e\u043b<\/a> reports this.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the investigation, law enforcement seized 1,909.4 BTC, which they valued at \u20ac44.2 million ($46.3 million).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cChipMixer software obscured traceability of funds in the blockchain, making it attractive to cybercriminals seeking to launder illicit proceeds,\u201d Europol&#8217;s report states.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Authorities also seized four servers containing more than 7 TB of data.<\/p>\n<p>The ChipMixer platform, founded in 2017, helped launder more than 152,000 BTC (about $2.88 billion according to Europol) during its operation.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said that most of these funds were linked to darknet services, ransomware programs, as well as illegal drug and weapons trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, information obtained after <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/german-police-confiscated-hydra-servers-and-seized-543-btc\">Hydra shutdown<\/a> allowed investigators to identify a link between ChipMixer and the darknet marketplace. Law enforcement recorded several transaction chains totalling millions of euros.<\/p>\n<p>The crypto mixer also helped launder money for operators of ransomware programs Zeppelin, SunCrypt, Mamba, Dharma and Lockbit.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities suspect that some digital assets stolen following the bankruptcy of an unnamed \u201cmajor cryptocurrency exchange\u201d in 2022 passed through ChipMixer.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in August 2022, the Ronin sidechain hacker <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ronin-hackers-convert-assets-into-bitcoin-and-use-mixers\">used<\/a> ChipMixer to conceal part of the withdrawn funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German and U.S. authorities, with support from Belgium, Poland and Switzerland, shut down ChipMixer infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75631,"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":[44,109,26],"class_list":["post-75630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-germany","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75630","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=75630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75632,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75630\/revisions\/75632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}