Notorious Bitcoin Hacker Released Years Early, Credits Trump

Ilya Lichtenstein, the man at the center of the 2016 Bitfinex theft, has been released from federal custody after serving roughly 14 months of a five-year sentence, according to reports. He had bee...

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Notorious Bitcoin Hacker Released Years Early, Credits Trump

Source: Bitcoinist.com

Ilya Lichtenstein, the man at the center of the 2016 Bitfinex theft, has been released from federal custody after serving roughly 14 months of a five-year sentence, according to reports. He had been sentenced in November 2024 for a money-laundering conspiracy tied to the theft of about 120,000 bitcoin, one of the largest crypto thefts […]