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Bitfinex Hacker Gets 5 Years for $10 Billion Bitcoin Heist
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Bitfinex Hacker Gets 5 Years for $10 Billion Bitcoin Heist

Wired  

In perhaps the most adorable hacker story of the year, a trio of technologists in India found an innovative way to circumvent Apple’s location restrictions on AirPod Pro 2s so they could enable the earbuds’ hearing aid feature for their grandmas. In a new legal strategy for those attempting to hold commercial spyware vendors responsible, lawyer Andreu Van den Eynde, …

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Crypto hacker who stole $11 billion of bitcoin sentenced to prison
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Crypto hacker who stole $11 billion of bitcoin sentenced to prison

The Independent  

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'Bitcoin’s biggest heist': How did Ilya Lichtenstein pull off the $10 billion cyber theft?
1 month, 3 weeks ago

'Bitcoin’s biggest heist': How did Ilya Lichtenstein pull off the $10 billion cyber theft?

Firstpost  

Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife, Heather Morgan, executed one of the ‘largest Bitcoin thefts’ in history, draining 120,000 bitcoins from Bitfinex in 2016. Lichtenstein’s wife, Heather Morgan, also known by her rap alias “Razzlekhan,” initially unaware of the hack, later became a crucial accomplice. Prosecutors noted, “Over half a decade, the defendant engaged in what IRS agents described as the …

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Man who stole and laundered roughly $1B in bitcoin is sentenced to 5 years in prison
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Man who stole and laundered roughly $1B in bitcoin is sentenced to 5 years in prison

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A computer expert who stole bitcoin worth billions of dollars at current prices — and then spent years laundering some of the hacked cryptocurrency with help from his wife — was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison. Ilya Lichtenstein masterminded one of the largest-ever thefts from a virtual currency exchange before he and his wife, Heather …

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Bitcoin scam: Karnataka SIT in touch with 30 foreign exchanges
1 year ago

Bitcoin scam: Karnataka SIT in touch with 30 foreign exchanges

The Hindu  

The Special Investigation Team of the Criminal Investigation Department, which is probing the alleged bitcoin scam, is in touch with over 30 foreign-based bitcoin exchanges in a bid to collect evidence on the movement of cryptocurrencies allegedly moved by hacker Srikrishna Ramesh aka Sriki. Sriki, arrested in a darknet drugs case in 2020 by the Central Crime Branch of Bengaluru …

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Political Crypto-nite: Understanding The Karnataka Bitcoin Controversy One Byte at A Time
2 years, 8 months ago

Political Crypto-nite: Understanding The Karnataka Bitcoin Controversy One Byte at A Time

News 18  

The bitcoin scam that allegedly involved kickbacks to police and politicians in Karnataka continues to be an albatross around the state government’s neck. On Sunday, the Central Bureau of Investigations issued a media statement clarifying the US law enforcement agency FBI “has not sent any team to India for conducting a probe in the matter nor has any request been …

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Stolen Bitcoin, fake personas and a trip to Ukraine: Inside the case against crypto heist couple Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein
2 years, 9 months ago

Stolen Bitcoin, fake personas and a trip to Ukraine: Inside the case against crypto heist couple Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein

ABC  

In January 2021, the US Department of Justice was closing in on its biggest financial bust ever: the seizure of more than $US3.6 billion in cryptocurrency. While the the trial date has not yet been set, it looks set to deliver on drama, with prosecutors alleging Lichtenstein and Morgan's activities "appear pulled from the pages of a spy novel". Prosecutors …

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Can bitcoin be a national currency? El Salvador is trying to find out
2 years, 10 months ago

Can bitcoin be a national currency? El Salvador is trying to find out

Live Mint  

SAN SALVADOR : President Nayib Bukele called Canadian videogame developer and bitcoin enthusiast Samson Mow up on stage at a beachside bitcoin convention in November that had the flair of a rock concert. The IMF has criticized El Salvador’s move to bitcoin, saying its price swings are too risky for the small economy and that Mr. Bukele’s policies are pushing …

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1st person to crack Bitfinex, multiple hacking scams: Karnataka hacker's tell-all statement to police | Exclusive
3 years, 1 month ago

1st person to crack Bitfinex, multiple hacking scams: Karnataka hacker's tell-all statement to police | Exclusive

India Today  

In a tell-all statement to the Karnataka Police, the prime accused in the Bitcoin scam, Srikrishna Ramesh, aka Sriki, revealed that he had hacked Bitfinex twice during his stay in the Netherlands and was the first person to do so. "Bitfinex was my first big bitcoin exchange hack; the exchange was hacked twice, and I was the first person to …

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Ben McKenzie on Tether, the potential danger at the center of the crypto economy.
55 years ago

Ben McKenzie on Tether, the potential danger at the center of the crypto economy.

Slate  

Many things that are terrible for you in high doses are pretty fun in low ones. But it’s hard to know for sure: The company has never produced an audit, though earlier this year, Tether released an “attestation” from a Cayman Islands firm that said the company had about 3 percent of its reserves in cash; subsequent releases have claimed …

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