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The Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange was hacked in August 2016. [1] 119,756 bitcoins, worth about US$72 million at the time, were stolen.[1]In February 2022, the US government recovered and seized a portion of the stolen bitcoin, then worth US$3.6 billion, [2] by decrypting a file owned by Ilya Lichtenstein (born 1989) that contained addresses and private keys associated with the stolen funds. [3]
Five years after the theft, the FBI arrested married couple Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan and Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein, whom the Justice Department accused of conspiring to launder $4.5 ...
Heather Morgan, who used the hip-hop alias "Razzlekhan" to push her music online, and her husband Ilya Lichtenstein were initially arrested in February 2022. NEW YORK (Reuters) -An American couple ...
Morgan plans to reunite with Lichtenstein after they are both free from prison. “When I come out of prison, I look forward to continuing to pursue creative endeavors as Razzlekhan,” Morgan ...
By February 2022, the amount of bitcoin stolen in 2016 had increased in value to $4.5 billion. Two people were arrested for the thefts [67] in 2022; married couple Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein and rapper Heather "Razzlekhan" Morgan were charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to defraud the United States. [66]
Lichtenstein also admitted to being the original hacker of bitcoin in the 2016 cyberattack on Bitfinex. [24] In November 2024, Lichtenstein was sentenced to five years in a US prison for his involvement in money laundering the stolen bitcoin. [27] Morgan was sentenced to 18 months in prison for fraud and conspiracy charges. [28]
The cast of “Crypto 2023” starred figures that are now practically synonymous with fraud: Sam Bankman-Fried, Changpeng Zhao, Alex Mashinsky, and, less prominently, Heather “Razzlekhan ...
Mitchell Wilson Lichtenstein (born March 10, 1956) is an American actor, writer, producer, and director. Early life and education.