Biggest crypto theft ever
Categories: FOREIGN COUNTRIES
The US Justice Department has arrested a married couple. Earlier last week, bitcoins worth about Rs 26,917 crore ($ 3.6 billion) were seized from them, whose value has increased to Rs 33,668 crore ($ 4.5 billion) in a week.The special thing is that when this couple, who specializes in hacking these bitcoins, stole it about 6 years ago, then their value was only 5311 crores ($ 71 million). The Justice Department has called it the biggest cryptocurrency theft to date. According to the New York Times report, the Justice Department has reported that a criminal complaint was filed against the arrested Ilya Lichtenstein (34) and Heather Morgan (31) for laundering 119,754 bitcoins. These bitcoins were both stolen from Hong Kong crypto exchange Bitfinex 6 years ago in 2016. Bitfinex is one of the largest virtual currency exchanges in the world.However, Justice Department officials have not commented on whether Lichtenstein and Morgan did the hacking themselves or someone else. The theft through such massive hacking of digital currency in the year 2016 raised questions about the security of cryptocurrencies. The biggest theft in the history of the cryptocurrency market on the world's largest currency exchange has caused the value of bitcoin to drop by nearly 20%. Lichtenstein and Morgan were produced in federal court in Manhattan later in the afternoon, where the judge released Lichtenstein on bail in exchange for a bond of Rs 37.40 crore ($5 million) and Morgan's Rs 22.44 crore ($3 million). . Investigators caught via blockchain