U.S. authorities seized stolen Bitcoins from Bitfinex

U.S. authorities reported the seizure of $3.6 billion in stolen Bitcoins from the Bitfinex exchange. The U.S. Justice Department said it was the largest cryptocurrency seizure ever.

The U.S. Department of Justice revealed the $3.6 billion bitcoin seizure. These funds were stolen as a result of a hacker attack on Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange in 2016. The total amount of funds stolen in the attack was $4.5 billion.

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco stressed that this is the largest cryptocurrency seizure to date. This is a text from site CryptoDeFix. New Yorker Elijah Lichtenstein and his wife, Heather Morgan, are suspected of conspiring to launder cryptocurrency. They have so far been released on $8 million bail. Authorities were able to trace the stolen funds through a major darknet exchange, through which many criminally derived funds pass.