Bitfinex hack scandal: A major development! 🕵️♂️
- 35-year-old programmer Ilya Lichtenstein was sentenced to 5 years in prison for laundering Bitcoin stolen from the Bitfinex exchange.
- 120,000 BTC were stolen in 2016; this amount would be worth $4.5 billion in 2022.
- DOJ announced that Lichtenstein and his wife Heather Morgan laundered cryptocurrencies using fake identities and "chain hopping" methods.
An important step for the security and transparency of blockchain technology! 🔍
