Bitfinex socialized the loss from the hack and reimbursed its customers within eight months, but potential victims can still come forward. Bitfinex might qualify for restitution for the 2016 hack of ...

A hacker responsible for stealing 119,754 Bitcoin in a 2016 hack on the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange was sentenced to five years in prison by U.S. authorities. The man, Ilya Lichtenstein, was ...

NEW YORK -- The Justice Department on Tuesday announced the arrests of a New York couple charged with conspiring to launder cryptocurrency presently valued at $4.5 billion -- stolen during the 2016 ...

Courtesy: Alexandria Adult Detention Center. The value of that bitcoin stolen by Ilya Lichtenstein was just $70 million when he executed the cyberattack on Bitfinex and initiated more than 2,000 ...

Ilya Lichtenstein, who had pleaded guilty to attempting to launder 120,000 bitcoin stolen from the Bitfinex crypto exchange in 2016, was released after just 14 months of his original five-year ...

Ilya Lichtenstein, who pled guilty last year to charges related to the 2016 theft of 120,000 bitcoin from Bitfinex, has made his first public statement since his 2022 arrest. In a five-minute video ...

Ilya Lichtenstein is coming home after serving time for the Bitfinex hack.

Prosecutors said Bitfinex hacker Heather Morgan should receive a lenient jail sentence because she provided “substantial assistance” to the government. United States prosecutors want Heather Morgan, ...

About $20 million in cryptocurrency seized from the notorious Bitfinex hack has mysteriously moved out of U.S. government-controlled wallets, blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence reported.

Morgan became a well-known figure in Twitter's (now X) high-finance community for posting obscure rap videos under the moniker “The Crocodile of Wall Street.” Why It Matters: Morgan and Lichtenstein ...