Security News > 2023 > August > NYC Couple Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering in $3.6 Billion Bitfinex Hack
2023-08-04 12:13
A married couple from New York City has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges in connection with the 2016 hack of cryptocurrency stock exchange Bitfinex, resulting in the theft of about 120,000 bitcoin. The development comes more than a year after Ilya Lichtenstein, 35, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 33, were arrested in February 2022, following the seizure of roughly 95,000 of the stolen
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