Hacker bags five years imprisonment over $4.5bn Bitcoin heist
A US court has sentenced a hacker involved in one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts in history, Ilya Lichtenstein, to five years in prison for laundering funds stolen during the 2016 Bitfinex hack. The theft involved nearly 120,000 bitcoins, initially valued at $70 million but worth over $4.5 billion at the time of Lichtenstein’s arrest…