Ilya Lichtenstein, who admitted to orchestrating the 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex, said he has been released from ...

Ilya Lichtenstein, convicted for the 2016 Bitfinex hack, has been released early from prison to home confinement ...

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has questioned the propriety of returning seized cryptocurrencies to Bitfinex as proposed by the US ...

Ilya Lichtenstein was sentenced to 60 months for his alleged role in laundering more than 120,000 Bitcoin, which was reportedly stolen from the crypto exchange Bitfinex in 2016. This was the sentence ...

Ilya Lichtenstein, who pleaded guilty to money laundering charges connected to the 2016 hack of cryptocurrency exchange ...

Ilya Lichtenstein was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in the theft of approximately 120,000 bitcoin BTC $92,652.29 from crypto exchange Bitfinex, the U.S. Department of Justice has ...

On January 2, 2026, Ilya Lichtenstein, a man behind infamous Bitfinex hack, announced his early release from federal prison.

Every week, ISMG rounds up cybersecurity incidents in digital assets. This week, BitMEX fined $100M, U.S. federal prosecutors sought return of hacked funds to Bitfinex, Mango Markets shut, a new Web3 ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a court document on Tuesday approving the return of 94,643 Bitcoin, recovered from a 2016 hack targeting the Bitfinex crypto exchange. The breach resulted in ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Crypto-currency exchange Bitfinex’s plan to impose losses on all its trading clients for the theft by hackers of $72 million in Bitcoin rests on two flawed pillars, according to ...

Heather Morgan has argued for no more jail time for her role in laundering some of the 120,000 Bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex by her husband Ilya Lichtenstein. Heather Morgan, also known as the rapper ...