Bitcoin hacker sentenced to 5 years in prison

Bitcoin hacker sentenced to five years in prison
A hacker has been sentenced to five years in a US prison for laundering the proceeds of one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency thefts. Ilya Lichtenstein pleaded guilty last year to hacking into the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange in 2016 and stealing almost 20,
Man who stole and laundered roughly $1B in bitcoin is sentenced to 5 years in prison
A computer expert who stole bitcoin worth billions of dollars at current prices — and then spent years laundering some of the hacked cryptocurrency with help from his wife — has been sentenced to five years in prison.
US man who laundered bitcoin stolen from Hong Kong-based Bitfinex gets 5-year sentence
Ilya Lichtenstein stole about 120,000 bitcoin from Bitfinex in 2016 and laundered funds with the help of his wife, Heather Morgan.
US man sentenced to 5 years over laundering crypto stolen from Bitfinex hack
A New York technology entrepreneur was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty last year to laundering funds stolen from Bitfinex one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges,
Bitfinex hacker sentenced to five years in prison for bitcoin money laundering scheme
A man whose 2016 hack of Bitfinex drained nearly 120,000 bitcoin from that cryptocurrency exchange was sentenced to five years in prison for a money laundering scheme that he and his wife pulled off to hide the swiped crypto.
Hacker who stole and laundered billions in bitcoin with wife’s help gets 5-year sentence
A New York technology entrepreneur was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty last year to laundering funds stolen from Bitfinex, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges,
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