Federal investigators say they did more than freeze a few cryptocurrency wallets. They took control of the online infrastructure Hamas allegedly used to collect money and recruit supporters.
The FBI seized more than $560,000 in cryptocurrency intended for Hamas’s military wing, the Al Qassam Brigades, according to a September 1 announcement from the Justice Department.
The operation also put Hamas-linked domains and servers in federal hands, allowing investigators to intercept attempted donations and gather information connected to thousands of people who contacted the network.
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The Justice Department said an encrypted group chat claiming ties to Hamas steered supporters to a fundraising website and supplied a rotating set of crypto addresses.
Using information from multiple human sources, investigators traced the digital assets and carried out seizures under three warrants issued on March 25, June 25 and October 10, 2025. The department said the combined seizures totaled approximately $560,000.
The FBI’s Albuquerque Field Office also identified and seized domains and servers connected to AlQassam.ps, described by the government as the main website controlled by the Al Qassam Brigades.
That infrastructure takeover changed the nature of the operation. Instead of merely blocking an old wallet, investigators gained the ability to capture donations still being sent through the compromised network.
The FBI seized $560,000 in crypto from Hamas over the past 18 months. Agents used blockchain analytics to follow the money on-chain.
Here’s how they did it.
1/5 pic.twitter.com/ZTkiqdm5Jt— Chainalysis (@chainalysis) September 3, 2026
Chainalysis reported that investigators followed funds moving among donation wallets, operational wallets, blockchain bridges and exchanges. Although Hamas allegedly rotated addresses, analysts could still examine connections and transaction patterns recorded on public blockchains.
Cryptocurrency can move outside traditional banking rails, but it is not automatically invisible. The public transaction record can expose relationships between wallets over time, especially when investigators combine blockchain data with exchange records, seized servers and human intelligence.
The Justice Department said the FBI obtained information regarding thousands of people who contacted Hamas online in an effort to donate or attempt to donate through cryptocurrency and traditional means.
Officials said that information will be used in future counterterrorism work. The announcement did not say that every person whose information was obtained would be charged, and the government’s claims about the fundraising network come from court filings and seizure affidavits.
The DOJ says it just dealt a major blow to Hamas' online fundraising operation.
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— FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) September 3, 2026
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro said the government would continue targeting Hamas fundraising online. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Eisenberg said the seizures were intended to cut resources used for recruitment, radicalization and attacks.
The action is part of a longer federal campaign against Hamas-linked digital financing. The Treasury Department’s 2026 National Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment describes earlier seizures involving approximately $201,400 in digital assets and a separate civil forfeiture action involving roughly $2 million connected to a Gaza-based money-transfer business.
Treasury said the earlier $201,400 seizure followed an alleged laundering system that moved more than $1 million through exchanges, transactions, suspected financiers and over-the-counter brokers. The separate $2 million action concerned digital currency linked to BuyCash, a Gaza-based business the government accused of supporting Hamas and other designated terrorist groups.
The assessment also said U.S. financial institutions filed 642 suspicious activity reports containing a key term from a 2023 FinCEN advisory on Hamas financing. These reports flag transactions for additional scrutiny; they are not criminal findings.
The volume shows that financial institutions continued to identify potentially relevant activity after the advisory was issued.
The latest operation shows why rotating wallet addresses alone is not a guarantee of anonymity. Once investigators connect the wallets, the servers, the communications channels and the people using them, the same digital infrastructure built to move money can become a map of the network.
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