Hours after the U.S. DOJ issued a press release revealing that it had seized 94,000 BTC and arrested two people in connection to the 2016 Bitfinex hack, a TikTok video of one of the hackers, Heather Morgan went viral. The video posted by one Twitter user shows a girl accepting that she had stolen Bitcoin worth $4.5 billion. The girl in the video is said to be Heather Morgan, one of the two arrested in connection to the 2016 Bitfinex hack. However, the veracity of the video is yet to be established. U.S. DoJ arrested two individuals in New York on Tuesday on charges of conspiring to launder proceeds from the Bitfinex hack in 2016. The married couple, Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan will appear in court at 3:00 p.m. ET in New York. The DoJ has called it the “largest crypto seizure to date”. 2016 Bitfinex Hack Saw 120,000 BTC Being Stolen The “largest crypto seizure to date” has come six years after 120,000 BTC were stolen in a Bitfinex hack in 2016. The stolen Bitcoins were worth $60 million back then and represented almost one-sixth of the total trading volume at the time. This would be worth almost $4.5 billion today. However, the DoJ has only seized 94,000 BTC which are valued at $3.6 billion. According to the law enforcement agency, the two conspirators planned to launder these bitcoins. However, they don’t claim that the two were the masterminds behind the original hack. The couple allegedly used various techni...
