The White House defended the release of Ilya Lichtenstein, who stole over 119,000 Bitcoin in 2016, from prison to home confinement—but didn’t take credit for the action.

Bitfinex, a cryptocurrency exchange and sister company of Tether, has cut its maker and taker trading fees to zero in a long-term competitive strategy to grow its market share. Zero trading fees will ...

Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan were accused last year of conspiring to launder Bitcoin stolen from the Bitfinex exchange in 2016. By Ed Shanahan A Russian American tech entrepreneur and his wife ...

A hacker responsible for stealing 119,754 Bitcoin in a 2016 hack on the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange was sentenced to five years in prison by U.S. authorities. The man, Ilya Lichtenstein, was ...

Users of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex were recently targeted by a “minor” phishing attack following a breach of an employee’s account. Bitfinex experienced a minor security incident when one of ...

Bitfinex announces that it has resolved a minor information security incident, discovered earlier this week. A “small” portion of Bitfinex‘s customer support boards, which “held partial, incomplete ...

Ilya Lichtenstein, who pled guilty to money laundering charges tied to his role in the massive hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex, has apparently been released early from prison.

The crypto world's hallmark is its notorious volatility, where prices can wildly swing in short timeframes. For traders, not just navigating but capitalizing on this volatility is a linchpin of ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Nearly 120,000 units of digital currency bitcoin worth about US$72 million was stolen from the exchange platform Bitfinex in Hong Kong, rattling the global bitcoin community in ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has recovered stolen bitcoin worth around $110,000 and returned it to cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, the company said on Monday, a fraction of the total ...

During the highly anticipated Money2020 meetup, industry leaders Dejan Roljić, CEO of GoCrypto, and Paolo Ardoino, chief technical officer of Bitfinex, announced the official listing of GoCrypto‘s ...

Bitfinex Derivatives announced a collaboration with crypto derivatives exchange Thalex to expand its portfolio of services, including options and dated and perpetual futures trading. The open beta ...