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Podcast: One Thing Today in Tech
Episode: Two arrested for links to 2016 crypto heist worth $4.5 bln today; Razorpay makes Malaysian acquisition; Airmeet raises $35 mln
Description: Two arrested in connection to 2016 crypto heist worth $4.5 billion today
The US Department of Justice has arrested two people in connection to a crypto heist in 2016. The two, Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife, Heather Morgan, are accused of conspiring to launder cryptocurrency that was stolen during a hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange, in 2016, presently valued at approximately $4.5 billion.
Thus far, law enforcement officials have seized over $3.6 billion in cryptocurrency linked to that hack, the justice department said in a statement yesterday.
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