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Ilya Lichtenstein pleaded guilty last year to hacking into the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange in 2016 and stealing almost 20,000 bitcoin ... serial entrepreneur, software investor and rapper".

Such a hack could torpedo bitcoin’s price, by allowing thieves to swipe coins out of supposedly secure digital wallets.

Among the most notable hacks are the theft of more than $305 million from Japan's crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin in May and the loss of $235 million from India's WazirX in July. Crypto hacking linked ...

A hacker has been sentenced to five years in ... exchange being hacked in 2016 and the theft of almost 120,000 bitcoin. He laundered the stolen cryptocurrency with the help of his wife Heather ...

December 09, 2024 - It was a Bitcoin hack so big and complex that the laptop used to trace and recover the stolen coins will soon be on display at the Smithsonian. There was a recovery effort so ...