The United States Government now controls one of the wealthiest Bitcoin wallets, as the Department of Justice seized$3.6 billion in stolen cryptocurrency from the 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex...
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Police Arrests 2 Suspects Involved in 2016 Bitfinex Hack
In an investigation that ran for over five years, the United States law enforcement has arrested a Manhattan-based couple identified as Lichtenstein and Morgan. They were suspected to be a part of the...
Bitfinex laundering defendants released on multimillion bond
FBI agents arrested New York resident Heather Morgan and her husband Ilya Lichtenstein for allegedly conspiring to launder crypto connected to the 2016 Bitfinex hack, in which 119,756 Bitcoin (BTC/USD...
‘Comedic rapper’ charged over Bitfinex hack laundering out on bail
New York resident Heather Morgan, 31, claims to be many things: “a serial entrepreneur, prolific writer, irreverent comedic rapper, and investor in B2B software companies with high growth potential.” ...
2016 Bitfinex Hacked Funds Recovered
A Manhattan couple – including prominent tech CEO and rapper Heather Morgan, and her husband Russian-American dual citizen Ilya Lichtenstein – were arrested and the largest amount of cryptocurrency as...
Justice Department Recovers Bitfinex Hack Funds In Largest Ever Financial Seizure
The FBI has arrested a husband and wife in Manhattan for allegedly conspiring to launder swaths of Bitcoin connected to the 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack. According to Reuters, over $3.6 billion worth o...
Bitfinex exchange hackers caught five years after
TL;DR Breakdown Hackers of Bitfinex exchange nabbed five years after. Couples behind hack faces 25 years n prison sentence. The United States of America Justice Department has announced the arrest of ...
Justice Department Seizes Over $3.6 Billion Worth of Bitcoin Linked to Bitfinex Hack
The U.S. Justice Department has seized $3.6 billion worth of Bitcoin, marking the largest seizure of cryptocurrency of all time and the biggest financial seizure ever. In a statement, the Justice Depa...
Data Shows Bitfinex Hack Woke Up Largest Ever 5yr+ Bitcoin Supply
Bitcoin on-chain data shows the recent movement of the coins involved in the 2016 Bitfinex hack have showed up as the largest ever spike in the 5+ years old supply revival metric. Movement Of 2016 Bit...
US Seizes 94,636 Bitcoin From 2016 Bitfinex Hack in ‘Largest Crypto Seizure to Date’ — 2 People Arrested – Exchanges Bitcoin News
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced the seizure of 94,636 bitcoins directly linked to the 2016 hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex. This is the DOJ’s “largest cryptocurrency se...
DoJ seizes $3.6B in crypto and arrests two in connection with 2016 Bitfinex hack
Authorities in the United States have made arrests and announced the seizure of $3.6 billion in cryptocurrency more than five years after hackers stole 119,756 Bitcoin (BTC) from the Bitfinex exchange...
DoJ Seizes $3.6B in Bitcoin From 2016 Bitfinex Hack
Share this article The $3.6 billion sum makes it the Department of Justice’s largest financial seizure in history. DoJ Recovers Funds From Bitfinex Hack U.S. officials have just confirmed the largest...
US Government Seizes $3.6 Billion Worth of Crypto Linked to Bitfinex Hack
Alex Dovbnya The U.S. Department of Justice has confiscated worth of crypto linked to the infamous Bitfinex hack The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has seized $3.6 billion worth of cryptocu...
Bitfinex Thieves Arrested, $3.6 Billion Bitcoin Seized – Trustnodes
The US Justice Department has announced the arrest of two individuals for an alleged conspiracy to launder cryptocurrency that was stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex, one of the biggest and oldes...
US government seizes $3.6 billion in bitcoin tied to 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex
advertisement The US Department of Justice said Tuesday that it has seized $3.6 billion worth of bitcoin tied to the 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex. Two individuals, Ilya Lichtenstein and Heat...
Nearly $2.3 Billion Worth of Bitcoin Moved Out of Wallet Involved in 2016 Bitfinex Hack: Whale Alert
Nearly $2.3 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) stolen in the infamous 2016 Bitfinex exchange heist is moving to a new wallet. Crypto tracker Whale Alert reports that the hacker’s account shifted more than...
Bitfinex hack awakens as funds being transferred to a different wallet
Bitfinex is one of the popular crypto platforms which had faced a massive hack in 2016. Recently, $3.6 billion in BTC from the hack has been consolidated into a single address. The funds were moved an...
$3.6 Billion in Bitcoin From the 2016 Bitfinex Hack Consolidates Into a Single Address – Bitcoin News
Jamie Redman Jamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a ...
Bitcoin Stolen From Bitfinex Hack Moved For The First Time In Five Years
The Bitfinex hack had been one of the most popular hacks when it occurred. At that point, bitcoin was still in its very early stages and was still reeling from the Mt Gox shutdown even years later. Wh...
Over $3.6B in Bitcoin From 2016 Bitfinex Hack Is on the Move
A significant cache of Bitcoin stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex exchange hacking incident was moved on Tuesday morning. The movements were detected by blockchain analytics platform WhaleAlert, with the rec...
Over 60,000 BTC Worth $2.4B Stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex Hack Just Moved
A large chunk of the bitcoins stolen from the infamous 2016 Bitfinex hack was moved by the hackers to an unknown wallet earlier today. Bitfinex 2016 Hacked Funds on the Move According to data from the...
Bitfinex Hackers Move $3.6 Billion of Stolen Bitcoins
Stolen bitcoins from the 2016 Bitfinex hack are moving. The BTC address that held the cryptocurrencies Cryptocurrencies By using cryptography, virtual currencies, known as cryptocurrencies, are ne...
Bitcoin worth $2.5 billion moved by 2016 Bitfinex hackers
Bitfinex hackers who stole funds from the crypto exchange in 2016 moved a total of 64,643 bitcoins (worth nearly $2.5 billion at current prices) to unknown wallets on Tuesday. The movements were track...
$750 Million In Bitcoin (BTC) Stolen From the 2016 Bitfinex Hack Is On the Move
A massive quantity of Bitcoin is on the move previously linked to the 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack. Just today, popular Twitter handle Whale Alert has reported two such instances wherein Bitcoins worth...
Bitfinex Announced Support for BitTorrent Token Redenomination and Swap
BitTorrent’s token redenomination and swap caused quite a stir in the market as every DEX must make changes to support the crypto. Bitfinex recently became one of the exchanges to support the swap on ...
Data Shows Strong Correlation Between Bitfinex Reserve & Bitcoin Price During Crash To $35k
On-chain data suggests there may have been a strong correlation between the Bitfinex Reserve and the Bitcoin price during the crash to $35k. Bitfinex Reserves Rose Sharply As BTC Price Plunged Down To...
Polygon Spurs Its Ecosystem As It Delegates 90 Million MATIC Tokens to Bitfinex For Staking ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     Bitfinex will partner with Polygon for its enhanced staking program. The cryptocurrency exchange will receive 90 million MATIC to support staking rew...
Bitfinex Releases Staking Rewards for MATIC
Bitfinex recently announced staking rewards for MATIC users on the platform. The venture released an official post on their website to make the announcement. Polygon recently shared 90 million MATIC w...
Polygon to Delegate $189M Worth of MATIC to Bitfinex for Staking
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex said it will receive $189 million worth of Polygon’s MATIC tokens to sponsor enhanced staking rewards for users. According to a blog post, Bitfinex will receive ...
Capital increase for Blockstream Mining Note with Bitfinex
Bitfinex, the exchange headquartered in the Virgin Islands, has announced a capital raise for Blockstream Mining Note, a tokenized security that provides accredited investors with exposure to the Bitc...
Crypto Exchange Bitfinex to Stop Serving Ontario Crypto Investors
Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex announced it would be leaving the Ontario market, Canada’s most populous, reminding users that should withdraw all their capital on or before Mar...
Bitfinex to Shut Down Operation for Ontario Customers by March 1
Crypto exchange Bitfinex on Friday announced changes to its services for Ontario, Canada customers. The exchange noted that it will be closing the accounts of users who no longer have funds on the pla...