Luke Edwards

Bitfinex Hacker Deserves 5-Year Sentence for Laundering $8 Billion in Stolen Bitcoin: DOJ

The hacker behind the $8 billion Bitfinex exchange attack of 2016 should spend five years in prison, according to U.S. prosecutors. Bitfinex hacker Ilya Lichtenstein used his "significant technical skills," as the U.S. District Court put it, to launder the digital funds with his wife as co-conspirator. Both pleaded guilty last year. The DOJ has already suggested that his wife, Heather “Razzlekahn” Morgan, the self-proclaimed "Crocodile of Wall Street," spend 18 months in prison for her role in l...