A married couple from New York City have pleaded guilty to money laundering and conspiracy charges stemming from the hack and theft of 120,000 bitcoin from the global cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex. The hack took place in 2016, and customers’ money was lost or stolen in...
Crypto will return because it never left. As proof, we offer PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Cryptocurrency Apps each month to track the action in digital assets. You’ll notice several slight but meaningful moves this month as the crypto sector sorts itself out and the hottest...
El Salvador’s experiment to make bitcoin a legal tender alongside the dollar is rapidly approaching its one-year anniversary on Sept. 7, and the endeavor has not been one of President Nayib Bukele’s great successes. While Bukele is clearly passionate about bitcoin, tweeting out news about...
A couple prosecutors say tried to launder $4.5 billion in cryptocurrency connected to the 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex are negotiating a possible plea deal with prosecutors, according to court documents. Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 32, both of New...
September 01, 2016
Member Banks of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) seem to be in the cybercriminal’s crosshairs these days. The global interbank messaging system reportedly sent private letters to its clients this week alerting them to newer hacking attacks since earlier this year when a string of attacks were discovered shortly after the massive […]
January 10, 2024
Apple reportedly removed Binance and seven other cryptocurrency platforms from its Indian App Store. The move, requested by the Indian government, marks an escalation in that country’s crackdown on digital asset companies, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Jan. 10). The exchanges — which also include Bitfinex, HTX and Kucoin — were removed on the instructions of the […]
August 03, 2023
A married couple from New York City have pleaded guilty to money laundering and conspiracy charges stemming from the hack and theft of 120,000 bitcoin from the global cryptocurrency exchange...
June 01, 2022
A couple prosecutors say tried to launder $4.5 billion in cryptocurrency connected to the 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex are negotiating a possible plea deal with prosecutors, according to...
February 08, 2022
In what has been called the largest financial seizure in history, a New York couple was arrested in Manhattan for an alleged conspiracy to launder $4.5 billion in stolen cryptocurrency,...
