After gaining access to digital wallet private keys stored with online service, husband and wife are arrested and US seizes $3.6 Billion in stolen Bitcoin linked to 2016 hack of Bitfinex.

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Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31, both of New York, New York, were arrested this morning in Manhattan for an alleged conspiracy to launder cryptocurrency that was stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange, presently valued at approximately $4.5 billion.

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