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 cryptocurrency thefts on record.
Prison Reform Law Cited In Early Release
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 early under the First Step Act, the bipartisan criminal justice reform law signed by Trump in 2018.
In a post on his X, he added that he plans to pursue work in cybersecurity and thanked supporters while saying he intends to prove critics wrong.
Thanks to President Trump’s First Step Act, I have been released from prison early. …Full story available on Benzinga.com
