Ilya Lichtenstein, the Bitcoin hacker involved in a huge cryptocurrency theft, attributes his early prison release to Trump.
A man of Russian-American descent, Ilya Lichtenstein, who previously hacked the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and made off with around 120,000 bitcoins, claims he was released early due to a bipartisan prison reform law that President Donald Trump signed into action. Lichtenstein, who is 38, was initially set to be sentenced in November 2024 after he […]
Ilya Lichtenstein sentenced to 5 years for Bitfinex bitcoin hack
A New York technology entrepreneur was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison after pleading guilty last year to laundering funds stolen from Bitfinex, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, with the help of his wife. Ta. The Justice Department said in a statement that Ilya Lichtenstein, 35, used sophisticated hacking tools and techniques […]