Ilya Lichtenstein urged his social media followers not to blame his wife — also implicated in money laundering — for the 2016 Bitfinex hack. Ilya Lichtenstein, the hacker who stole and laundered ...

Bitfinex socialized the loss from the hack and reimbursed its customers within eight months, but potential victims can still come forward. Bitfinex might qualify for restitution for the 2016 hack of ...

September 2015 – The FBI contacts the Democratic National Committee’s help desk, cautioning the IT department that at least one computer has been compromised by Russian hackers. A technician scans the ...

This weekend, Politico dropped a news bombshell: A person who only goes by “Robert” had shared with the news organization documents allegedly stolen from the Donald Trump presidential campaign. If ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Neera Tanden, a top official in the Biden White House, expressed outrage over what she called a “double standard” in the media’s ...

Neera Tanden, a top official in the Biden White House, expressed outrage over what she called a “double standard” in the media’s response to a hack of the Trump campaign after her communications were ...

A hacker responsible for stealing 119,754 Bitcoin in a 2016 hack on the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange was sentenced to five years in prison by U.S. authorities. The man, Ilya Lichtenstein, was ...

Ilya Lichtenstein, the hacker who stole and laundered Bitcoin from the crypto exchange Bitfinex, has released a statement on social media after being sentenced to five years in prison. In a Dec. 19 X ...

Attorneys for the US government recently submitted a motion requesting that the Bitcoin (BTC) forfeited as a result of the 2016 Bitfinex hack should be returned to the cryptocurrency exchange. The Jan ...