On April 14, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the Southern District of New York revealed that the hacker responsible for the Silk Road marketplace breach had been sentenced to a year in prison for wire fraud charges. James Zhong stole more than 50,000 bitcoin from the darknet marketplace (DNM) in September 2012. DOJ attorney Damian Williams stated that Zhong had utilized a bitcoin mixing service, an international cryptocurrency exchange, and “an impressive array of technological tools to frustrate tracing efforts.”