Convicted Bitfinex hacker Ilya Lichtenstein said a prison reform law signed by President Donald Trump led to his early ...

Ilya Lichtenstein, the hacker behind one of the largest Bitcoin thefts on record, has been released from prison just over a ...

Convicted Bitfinex hacker Ilya Lichtenstein was released early from prison. Here’s why, what changed, and what it means for ...

Bitfinex hacker Ilya Lichtenstein gained early release under the First Step Act, highlighting shifting crypto crime ...

Lichtenstein reunited with wife and fellow hacker Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan this week.

On January 2, 2026, Ilya Lichtenstein, a man behind infamous Bitfinex hack, announced his early release from federal prison.

Lichtenstein was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for his involvement in a money-laundering conspiracy stemming from ...

The hacker, who pleaded guilty to stealing and laundering nearly 120,000 bitcoin from Bitfinex, said sentence-reduction ...

Woo responded to an X post by English YouTuber Josh Otten about the potential of a functional quantum computer using Shor’s algorithm to break the encryption protecting Bitcoin’s oldest wallets.

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