Defector: Alleged Masterminds Of $4.5 Billion Crypto Heist Also Auteurs Of Weapo
ns-Grade Internet Vanity Trash.
[1]https://defector.com/alleged-masterminds-of-4-5-billion-crypto-heist-also-aut
eurs-of-weapons-grade-internet-vanity-trash/

   "The [2]Justice Department announced today they’d arrested the two
   people behind the [3]2016 Bitfinex hack and recovered 94,636 of the
   119,754 bitcoins stolen in the heist. That haul is currently valued at
   more than $3.6 billion, making it the largest financial seizure in
   United States history. That’s so much money—enough, to use an example
   everyone can agree is relevant, to buy the Sacramento Kings twice.
   Because the theft and recovery involved cryptocurrency, the details are
   all pretty fascinating."

   "For instance, one of the actual crimes the pair of alleged masterminds
   are accused of committing is money laundering, which is somewhat
   redundant given, again, that we are dealing with cryptocurrency. In
   this case, the feds say Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan
   successfully laundered 21 percent of their bitcoin plunder through a
   number of labyrinthine pathways, including setting up fake accounts,
   swapping BTC for gold, and buying a bunch of PlayStation and WalMart
   gift cards. The feds found the unlaundered 79 percent just, uh, sitting
   in Lichtenstein’s cloud storage account, which they [4]pretty easily
   recovered after getting a search warrant."

References

   1. https://defector.com/alleged-masterminds-of-4-5-billion-crypto-heist-also-auteurs-of-weapons-grade-internet-vanity-trash/
   2. https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1470186/download?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
   3. https://fortune.com/2016/08/03/bitcoin-stolen-bitfinex-hack-hong-kong/
   4. https://www.tronweekly.com/94643-stolen-btc-from-2016-bitfinex-hack-moved/