Int'l operation takes down ChipMixer money laundering service

International authorities have conducted a takedown of ChipMixer, a darknet cryptocurrency mixing service that they accuse of laundering and hiding the origins of billions of dollars in bitcoin for criminal organizations, North Korean hackers and the Russian Intelligence Service.

The Justice Department announced the coordinated law enforcement action Wednesday, stating they seized of two domains that directed users to the ChipMixer service and a Github Internet hosting service account, while German police took down the ChipMixer back-end servers and more than $46 million in cryptocurrency.