Husband confesses to 2016 Bitfinex hack during guilty plea in $4.5 billion bitcoin money laundering case

Ilya Lichtenstein admitted to orchestrating the 2016 hack of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex resulting in theft of 119,000 bitcoin worth $71 million at the time.
Lichtenstein used advanced hacking tools to steal the bitcoin and transfer it to accounts he controlled.
Lichtenstein and his wife Heather Morgan, known as "Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde," laundered the stolen bitcoin through numerous transactions to obscure its criminal origin.
When arrested in 2022, Lichtenstein still had control of cryptocurrency worth $3.6 billion stemming from the hack.
Both Lichtenstein and Morgan have pleaded guilty to charges related to money laundering conspiracy and face maximum sentences of 20 years and 5 years in prison respectively.