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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The identity of the hacker or hackers behind an exploit that removed more than 100,000 Bitcoin from Bitfinex in 2016 had only been the subject of speculation until Aug. 3. One-half of the couple ...

New York resident Ilya Lichtenstein, the husband of Heather Morgan, an entrepreneur and rapper known as “Razzlekhan,” revealed himself as the hacker who executed a multimillion-dollar exploit of ...

Lichtenstein was sentenced in November 2024 for conspiracy to commit money laundering, linked to nearly 120,000 BTC stolen from the Bitfinex exchange. At today’s prices, that haul is worth more than ...

Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, the couple who were arrested last year for the massive 2016 Bitfinex hack involving billions of dollars of cryptocurrency, have pleaded guilty in court.

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.