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'Crocodile Of Wall Street' and the battle over billions in stolen bitcoins
On the morning of Aug. 2, 2016, all around the globe, thousands of unsuspecting crypto investors woke up to find their digital wallets mysteriously wiped out. News broke of a shocking digital heist: nearly 120,000 bitcoins stolen from Bitfinex and the start of a manhunt for the hackers. It has all the ingredients of a wide-screen thriller … only this one is true, and is unfolding to be "super, super weird," according to one of the investors targeted in the hack.
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Thu, Oct 20 20226:06 PM EDT
CNBC takes you inside one of the largest crypto currency heists in history and delivers a revealing look at the investigation to recover $3.6 billion in bitcoins. According to court records, the five-year-long investigation ultimately led the feds to the Wall Street apartment of a young married couple where the IRS says they uncovered burner phones, multiple passports, hollowed out books and the private keys investigators used to access billions in stolen crypto connected to the hack. Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein were later arrested in the alleged multibillion-dollar crypto laundering scheme.
