back to article Bitfinex heist gets the Netflix treatment after 'cringey couple' sentenced

A documentary examining the 2016 Bitfinex burglars hits Netflix, bringing the curious case to living rooms for the first time. Biggest Heist Ever covers the story of Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, described in the trailer as the "cringey couple" that pulled off a massive digital heist of nearly 120,000 Bitcoin eight …

  1. tyrfing

    I wonder if anyone got their Bitcoin back? Or is it still sitting in the police lockup as "evidence"?

    1. Flightmode

      This was actually covered in the documentary (which is worth a casual watch, but nothing amazing).

      Bitfinex has apparently given their affected customers one "token" for each dollar-equivalent that their customers had in their account at the time of the heist, with the promise that they would "redeem that token into actual dollars as soon as they can". Their head of communications and marketing, who was interviewed in the documentary was very proud of the fact that they had "fulfilled all their obligations to their customers" through this. It is envisioned that the seized Bitcoin will (eventually) be sent back to Bitfinex, meaning that Bitfinex will end up with the net gain between the customer compensation tokens and today's BTC value. Since the hack itself apparently didn't kill Bitfinex as an exchange/wallet company, that comment from their representative in the documentary surely will... (Lawsuits are in progress by former customers.)

      Also, there's still about USD 1bn worth of BTC still not accounted for.

  2. Howard Sway Silver badge

    Biggest Heist Ever?

    Right now they're not even in the Top 50 on the web 3 is going just great leaderboard of crypto hacks and scams. The running total of money lost just for the big known crpto scams in the past four years currently stands at $76,156,813,668.

    1. Jadith

      Re: Biggest Heist Ever?

      Carbanak got away with like $900 million in acutal money. As far as I know they still haven't caught all of them.

      Hell some of the big ransomware payouts can get to the millions, easy.

      Those two are just some clowns and some producer thought he could get some Tiger King money out of them.

    2. Ashentaine

      Re: Biggest Heist Ever?

      To the average couch dweller that doesn't know or care about crypto (which is likely the vast majority), it would be an unfathomable about of money. Granted, even if Lichtenstein and Morgan still had access to all those coins there's no way they could realistically cash them all out and access their full worth, which makes it less impressive on that alone, but still.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Future Trump administration appointees?

    They would be a great fit for the Trump SEC.

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