Bitcoin Thieves Finale: Brilliant or Bozos?
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
Money News Network
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, are you ready for some money rehab? |
| 0:05.0 | Wall Street has been completely upended by an unlikely player. Game stop. |
| 0:09.0 | That's a good one. |
| 0:10.0 | Ian and should I have a 401k because then I can do it? |
| 0:12.0 | No, I know. |
| 0:15.0 | I think the whole world will revolve around you on your money. |
| 0:17.0 | What a dumb shit. |
| 0:19.0 | Charge for wasting our time. |
| 0:23.0 | I will take a check. |
| 0:25.0 | We're gonna pull you down. |
| 0:27.0 | You recognize her from anchoring on CNN, CNBC, and Bloomberg. |
| 0:31.0 | The only financial expert you don't need a dictionary to understand. |
| 0:35.0 | The cold lap been. |
| 0:37.0 | And this is the moment we've all been waiting for. |
| 0:41.0 | And the story our deep dive has been building toward. |
| 0:44.0 | It's time to talk about... |
| 0:47.0 | ...Razelcon. |
| 0:48.0 | Last month, married couple Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan were arrested and charged with conspiracy to launder just under 100 years. |
| 0:56.0 | Under 120,000 bitcoins that were stolen in a 2016 hack. |
| 1:01.0 | According to TechSpot, federal agents were able to access the wallet containing the stolen bitcoin after decrypting a file saved to Ilya's cloud storage account that contained 2000 wallet addresses and their private keys. |
| 1:16.0 | Blockchain analysis confirmed that nearly all of the addresses were directly linked to the hack. |
| 1:22.0 | I know that sounds a little matrix-y, but what this basically means was that federal agents were able to find the couple's digital crypto trail and seize the stolen bitcoin. |
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