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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A 25-year-old Alabama man was arrested on Thursday for hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's X account this year as part of an alleged conspiracy to ...
The Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange was hacked in August 2016. [1] 119,756 bitcoin, worth about US$72 million at the time, was stolen.[1]In February 2022, the US government recovered and seized a portion of the stolen bitcoin, then worth US$3.6 billion, [2] by decrypting a file owned by Ilya Lichtenstein that contained addresses and private keys associated with the stolen funds. [3]
Each is convicted of a second-degree money laundering and fifth-degree ... mostly in bitcoin. They were first arrested almost exactly a year ago. $2.8 Million Over Six Years for Homemade Steroids ...
On July 25, 2017, Vinnik was arrested in Ouranoupoli, Greece [7] at the request of the U.S. on suspicion of laundering $4 billion through the digital currency Bitcoin (BTC-e). [8] At the time, Vinnik denied the charges. [9] In late July 2017, the U.S. requested Vinnik's extradition from Greece. [10]
Oct. 2—Ian Freeman was sentenced Monday in federal court to eight years in prison for laundering over $10 million in proceeds from romance scams and other internet fraud, prosecutors announced.
Ross William Ulbricht (/ ˈ ʊ l b r ɪ k t /; born March 27, 1984) [2] is an American who created and operated the darknet market website Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. [3] He was imprisoned from 2013 until January 2025 when he received a full pardon from U.S. President Donald Trump .
(Reuters) - U.S. authorities charged two Chinese nationals in a cryptocurrency scam that laundered at least $73 million from defrauded victims, the Justice Department said on Friday.
A well-known early example of money laundering using cryptocurrencies is Silk Road. Shut down in 2013 with its founder Ross Ulbricht indicted for among other counts a money laundering conspiracy, the website was used for several illicit activities including money laundering solely using Bitcoin as a form of payment. [97]