Suspect Ilya Likhtenstein pleaded guilty last year to hacking the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange.
American businessman of Russian origin Ilya Lichtenstein was sentenced to five years in prison for hacking the Bitfinex exchange in 2016. He stole 120 thousand bitcoins, the value of which increased from $71 million to almost $10 billion. Liechtenstein has previously pleaded guilty. The BBC reported this on Friday, November 15.
Liechtenstein pleaded guilty last year in connection with the hack of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex. At that time, the amount stolen was estimated at $71 million, but then, taking into account the sharp increase in the price of Bitcoin, it increased to $4.5 billion. At today’s exchange rate, this amount is close to $10 billion.
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Earlier, cyber specialists from the SBU, together with law enforcement agencies of the United States, Great Britain and the European Union, exposed an international group of hackers and extortionists.
Source: korrespondent
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