NEW YORK — Hack and scam victims who reached out to Tornado Cash requesting assistance retrieving their stolen funds received little in the way of help from the privacy tool’s developers, three ...

Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm is on trial for a $1B crypto-laundering conspiracy. Prosecutors say Tornado Cash was the go-to anonymizing tool for hackers and scammers. Storm brazenly wore a shirt ...

NEW YORK — Roman Storm, the Tornado Cash developer standing trial in Manhattan on charges that the privacy tool he created helped hackers and other cyber criminals launder more than $1 billion in ...

These statements were delivered after the jury selection process concluded. The jury consists of seven women and five men; two members of the jury are in their 60s, four in their 40s, one in their 30s ...

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According to The Wall Street Journal, federal agents arrested Roman Storm, a 35-year-old software developer, at gunpoint in August 2023 at his home in Auburn, Washington, as part of a criminal ...

Roman Storm, the embattled co-founder of Tornado Cash, faced the Manhattan federal jury on August 6, 2025, and despite all that has been said about him, the jury could not decide unanimously on ...

Roman Storm, one of the developers of crypto anonymizing tool Tornado Cash, has been found guilty of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business by a jury in a court in New York.

With a jury finalized, the prosecution and defense made their opening statements, each featuring a very different slant on Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm’s intentions in creating Tornado Cash.