Convicted Bitfinex hacker Ilya Lichtenstein said a prison reform law signed by President Donald Trump led to his early release after serving part of a five-year sentence for one of the largest ...

Lichtenstein, a Russian-U.S. national who admitted to hacking crypto exchange Bitfinex in 2016 and stealing nearly 120,000 bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), said on Thursday he has been released from prison ...

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.

President Donald Trump has leaned into his presidential clemency powers much more aggressively in his second term –in fact, ...