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Billion-dollar Bitcoin hacker Ilya Lichtenstein released early, thanks Trump

  • Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas--Cointelegraph
  • published date: 2026-01-03 07:13:30 UTC

The hacker behind the 2016 Bitfinex breach says he was freed early under Donald Trump’s First Step Act, just over a year after receiving a five-year sentence.

Ilya Lichtenstein, the hacker behind one of the largest Bitcoin thefts on record, has been released from prison just over a year after receiving a five-year sentence, thanks to a criminal justice ref… [+2823 chars]