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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-04T17:47:15.000Z",
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    "YggTorrent Shuts Down After Hack, Leak and Stolen Crypto * TorrentFreak",
    "Cards Shield"
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  "textContent": "torrentfreak.com\n\n### YggTorrent Shuts Down After Hack, Leak and Stolen Crypto * TorrentFreak\n\nYggTorrent, the largest francophone torrent community, has shut down permanently following a devastating hack.\n\nEst. reading time: 3 minutes\n\nMy interest in this story from a privacy perspective is not the data leak itself. Its this excerpt from the article.\n\n> The site allegedly used a plugin called CardsShield to route payments through dozens of fake e-commerce storefronts to disguise the true nature of transactions from PayPal and Stripe. The proceeds then went through a circuit involving USDT, Monero and Ethereum, with funds passed through Tornado Cash to reach anonymous wallets.\n\nI realize this was all an attempt to launder money but I am wondering if these methods could be co-opted in a legal way to help people more privatley move funds around.\n\nI had never heard of Cards Shield before. I wonder if any users here have experience with it.\n\n* * *\n\nMods - Even though the story has some privacy related elements such as it being a data leak, I apologize if this should be in the off-topic section of the forum. I was not sure where to place it.",
  "title": "YggTorrent Shuts Down After Hack, Leak and Stolen Crypto * TorrentFreak"
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