US Hacker Sentenced to Five Years Over Multi-Billion-Dollar Bitcoin Heist
A U.S. federal court has sentenced Ilya Lichtenstein to five years in prison for laundering cryptocurrency stolen during the 2016 hack of the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange. The theft involved nearly 120,000 Bitcoin, one of the largest cryptocurrency heists in history. At the time of the hack, the stolen Bitcoin was valued at approximately $70 million…