- James Zhong of Gainesville, Georgia, pleaded guilty to wire fraud in the theft of about $3.36 billion in bitcoin stolen from the illegal Silk Road marketplace, which the FBI shut down in 2013.- This is the federal government's second-largest seizure of cryptocurrency, following the $3.6 billion in stolen crypto linked to the 2016 hack of Bitfinex.According to the Southern District of New York, Zhong took advantage of the marketplace's vulnerabilities to execute the hack.His profile also states he was a "large early bitcoin investor with extensive knowledge of its inner workings" and that he had software development experience in computer programming languages.In March 2022, a different hacker found vulnerabilities in the decentralized finance platform Ronin Network and made off with more than $600 million — the largest hack to date."