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Ilya Lichtenstein

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9 articles decelerating

Ilya Lichtenstein has appeared in 9 articles since 2022-02. Coverage peaked in 2024Q4 with 3 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Bitfinex, Heather Morgan.

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Coverage Timeline

2026-01-03
CNBC 17 related

Ilya Lichtenstein, sentenced in Nov. 2024 to five years in prison for hacking Bitfinex, has been released early due to First Step Act, Trump's prison-reform law

The Russian-U.S. national who hacked crypto exchange Bitfinex and stole nearly 120,000 bitcoin said he has been freed …

2024-11-16
Bloomberg 25 related

Ilya Lichtenstein is sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring with his wife, Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan, to launder money from the 2016 Bitfinex hack

Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg :

2024-11-15
Bloomberg 26 related

Ilya Lichtenstein is sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring with his wife, Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan, to launder money from the 2016 Bitfinex hack

Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg :

2024-10-16
Bloomberg 7 related

Filing: US prosecutors ask a judge to sentence Ilya Lichtenstein, mastermind of the 2016 Bitfinex hack, to five years in prison; sentencing is due in November

- Ilya Lichtenstein pled guilty to 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack  — He and rapper-wife Razzlekhan conspired to launder proceeds

2023-08-04
CNBC 27 related

Ilya Lichtenstein, who earlier pled guilty to laundering $4.5B in bitcoin stolen via Bitfinex's 2016 hack, admits in court to being the original Bitfinex hacker

- A New York man admitted being the original hacker of bitcoin in the 2016 hack on Bitfinex he pleaded guilty in federal court …

2023-07-22
Reuters 18 related

Court filing: Heather “Razzlekhan” Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein reach a plea deal over allegedly laundering billions in cryptocurrency from Bitfinex's 2016 hack

Luc Cohen / Reuters :

2022-06-30
Bloomberg

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 , @c...

2022-02-12
VICE 8 related

A profile of the couple charged with laundering ~$5B in stolen bitcoin, compiled from sources, filings, databases, documents, and an extensive online record

Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein wanted to be famous.  Now, after being accused of laundering billions of dollars of crypto, they are.

2022-02-10
Bloomberg 30 related

How the feds caught Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein as they allegedly attempted, rather sloppily, to launder bitcoin from the Bitfinex hack

Bitfinex laundry  —  In her public life, Heather Morgan seems to have been the cringiest imaginable sort of crypto-adjacent hustle-bro.

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