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| Five-Year Prison Sentence for Man who Stole 120,000 Bitcoin from Bitfinex in 2016 More than 120,000 bitcoin were stolen in a 2016 breach of Bitfinex. Seven years later the perpetrator pleaded guilty. And Thursday he was sentenced to a five-year prison term, reports the Associated Press: Ilya Lichtenstein masterminded one of the largest-ever thefts from a virtual currency exchange before he and his wife, Heather Rhiannon Morgan, carried out an elaborate scheme to liquidate the stolen funds, according to federal prosecutors... "Over half a decade, the defendant engaged in wh... Read the full article on Slashdot »    |
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Five-Year Prison Sentence for Man who Stole 120,000 Bit...