
On Feb. 8, the U.S. Department of Justice charged Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein for an alleged conspiracy to launder 120,000 BTC stolen from crypto exchange Bitfinex in 2016.
Needless to say, industry watchers were taken aback when they realized that the individuals behind the hack didn’t fit the description of the “elite hackers” that people had imagined them to be.