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.

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.

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hidden Road, a prime brokerage backed by the American market maker Citadel Securities, is enhancing institutional exposure to digital assets through a partnership with Bitfinex. On June 13, Bitfinex ...