Earlier at present, the U.S. Division of the Treasury up to date its Specifically Designated Nationals Listing, including a number of people and pl
Earlier at present, the U.S. Division of the Treasury up to date its Specifically Designated Nationals Listing, including a number of people and plenty of cryptocurrency addresses. One of many people added was Artem Mikhaylovich Lifshits — a Russian nationwide, accused of interfering within the U.S. elections.
Along with disclosing his private info, the positioning lists plenty of cryptocurrency addresses that he allegedly controls. One of many Ethereum addresses, discovered at 0xa7e5d5a720f06526557c513402f2e6b5fa20b00, doesn’t appear to exist, nonetheless.
Supply: U.S. Division of the Treasury.
There was possible a mixup someplace within the chain of command and the Treasury meant to blacklist 0xA7e5d5A720f06526557c513402f2e6B5fA20b008 as an alternative.
One other obscure risk is that Russian hackers in some way acquired early entry to wallets utilized by ETH 2.0. Cointelegraph has reached out to Vitalik Buterin for remark, however he was both unavailable or we had the flawed tackle.