US prosecutors push for 5 year prison sentence for Bitfinex-hack mastermind

Trisha Husada

US prosecutors urged a Washington federal judge that Ilya Lichtenstein, the mastermind who extracted 120,000 Bitcoin ($8 billion) by hacking into the Bitfinex crypto exchange, should get five years in prison. According to Bloomberg, in an Oct. 15 court filing…

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US prosecutors push for 5 year prison sentence for Bitfinex-hack mastermind