{"id":85106,"date":"2025-09-14T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=85106"},"modified":"2025-09-14T09:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T09:00:28","slug":"doj-seeks-5m-in-bitcoin-tied-to-sim-swapping-and-casino-laundering-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=85106","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Seeks $5M in Bitcoin Tied to SIM Swapping and Casino Laundering Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/doj-seeks-forfeiture-of-5m-bitcoin-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"DOJ Seeks $5M in Bitcoin Tied to SIM Swapping and Casino Laundering Scheme\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/doj-seeks-forfeiture-of-5m-bitcoin-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/doj-seeks-forfeiture-of-5m-bitcoin-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/doj-seeks-forfeiture-of-5m-bitcoin-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/doj-seeks-forfeiture-of-5m-bitcoin-190x107.jpg 190w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/doj-seeks-forfeiture-of-5m-bitcoin-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/doj-seeks-forfeiture-of-5m-bitcoin-760x428.jpg 760w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/doj-seeks-forfeiture-of-5m-bitcoin.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">Hackers drained millions in crypto by exploiting SIM swap flaws, laundering the funds through a casino in a brazen digital heist now under DOJ asset seizure action. Feds Crack Down on SIM Swap Hackers Behind $5M Crypto Theft and Laundering Plot The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced this week that it has filed a [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers drained millions in crypto by exploiting SIM swap flaws, laundering the funds through a casino in a brazen digital heist now under DOJ asset seizure action. Feds Crack Down on SIM Swap Hackers Behind $5M Crypto Theft and Laundering Plot The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced this week that it has filed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}