Hacker Jailed for $4.5B Bitcoin Laundering Scheme
The US hacker was jailed for five years in U.S. prison for laundering cryptocurrency۔ The hacker, Ilya Lichtenstein, pleaded guilty last year, admitting he laundered nearly 120,000 stolen bitcoin that were taken during the 2016 hacking of the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange.The bitcoin was valued at $70 million at the time of the hack and surged