5 million USDT were freezed from 12 addresses which were under suspicion.
MistTrack labelled the addresses as “USDT disabled addresses.”
Tether has frozen 5.2 million USDT from 12 Ethereum addresses linked to phishing groups. These addresses are tagged as USDT-banned addresses by MistTrack. It is an anti-money laundering tracking system developed by SlowMist AML, and used in on-chain analytics to trace illicit funds.
Historically, stablecoin issuers ban suspicious addresses for various reasons connected with law enforcement and criminal activities.
Involvement and Rectification of Tether
According to an X post on March 5, 2024, by PeckShield, a blockchain security firm, Tether has blacklisted four addresses with a total holding of $21.2 million in USDT. The largest address held 20.1 million USDT, followed by two with $500,000 USDT each. And the last one had a balance of $217,000 USDT.
In January 2024, a U.N. report mentioned the illicit involvement of USDT. Further
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