Ilya Lichtenstein, who had pleaded guilty to attempting to launder 120,000 bitcoin stolen from the Bitfinex crypto exchange ...

Ilya Lichtenstein, convicted for the 2016 Bitfinex hack, has been released early from prison to home confinement ...

Bitfinex hacker Ilya Lichtenstein was released after one year under the First Step Act, as Trump-era crypto pardons fuel debate.

The hacker, who pleaded guilty to stealing and laundering nearly 120,000 bitcoin from Bitfinex, said sentence-reduction ...

The U.S. government has announced that the Bitcoin seized after the 2016 Bitfinex hack should be wired back to its rightful owners who fell victim to the attack. The value of the recovered assets has ...

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has questioned the propriety of returning seized cryptocurrencies to Bitfinex as proposed by the US ...

Every week, ISMG rounds up cybersecurity incidents in digital assets. This week, BitMEX fined $100M, U.S. federal prosecutors sought return of hacked funds to Bitfinex, Mango Markets shut, a new Web3 ...

A federal court has yet to rule on a proposed motion from the US government requesting crypto forfeited from a criminal case involving the 2016 hack on Bitfinex be returned to the exchange. In a Jan.

On January 9, PeckShieldAlert, a blockchain security and forensic platform, revealed that crypto hacks and scams cost $3.01 billion in 2024. This represents a substantial 15% increase compared to the ...

Nearly $2.4 billion was stolen across 760 on-chain incidents in 2024. That was just one revelation in CertiK’s Hack3d: The Web3 Security Report 2024. Even though the total number of incidents ...

The crypto industry's most notorious rapper, Heather Morgan – more widely known as Razzlekhan – released a new music video as U.S. authorities stand ready to imprison her for criminally laundering ...

A blockchain security solution by Cyvers could prevent 99% of crypto hacks and scams, addressing vulnerabilities like phishing and CEX exploits that cost $2.3 billion in 2024, the company said. A new ...