US married couple arrested for allegedly conspiring to launder $4.5bn in bitcoin
by Samira Sadeque and agencies from Technology | The Guardian on (#5VYA0)
Husband and wife, a rapper on TikTok, are accused in the US's biggest-ever cryptocurrency theft case
The US justice department has announced the unraveling of its biggest-ever cryptocurrency theft case, seizing a record-shattering $3.6bn in bitcoin in a saga that has captivated the internet.
US officials said on Tuesday the recovered sum was linked to the hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange whose systems were breached by hackers nearly six years ago.
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