An in-depth look at the 2016 Bitfinex hack and US government's case against Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, aka Razzlekhan, over alleged money laundering
The hackers had been inside the Bitfinex servers for weeks before attempting the heist. They'd watched users on the cryptocurrency exchange buy and sell Bitcoins. Tweets: @kaileyleinz , @chafkin , @cfarivar , @oliviasolon , @zekefaux , @oliviasolon , @crypto , and @latseema Tweets: Kailey Leinz / @kaileyleinz : “Spearphish your password / All your funds transferred.” This @ZekeFaux story is just so unreal and so so good, literally everyone go read it https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @BW Max Chafkin / @chafkin : new in @bw: how police caught up with Razzlekhan, aka the Forbes Rapper, aka the Crocodile of Wall Street by @ZekeFaux https://www.bloomberg.com/... Cyrus Farivar / @cfarivar : Nice story on the Razzlekhan saga. One eyebrow-raising stat that jumped out at me: in 2021, $3.2B was stolen from crypto exchanges and DeFi apps, or 100X more than all money from all bank robberies in an average year in US. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Olivia Solon / @oliviasolon : Including the captions https://twitter.com/... Zeke Faux / @zekefaux : next up in the HEIST issue: Razzlekhan! https://www.bloomberg.com/... Olivia Solon / @oliviasolon : Every sentence is perfect https://twitter.com/... @crypto : NEW: He's a startup-guy who loves his cat. She's a copywriter who made bad rap videos on the side. Together they allegedly pulled off an $8 billion Bitcoin heist and introduced the world to Razzlekhan. Read The Big Take ⬇️ https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @BW Seema / @latseema : I know I am old but I legit don't understand half the words in this post. (But I like cat.) https://twitter.com/...