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The U.S. Department of Justice charged Russian nationals Alexey Bilyuchenko and Aleksandr Verner with hacking Mt. Gox in 2011, at the time one of the biggest thefts in the crypto industry.
"Mt. Gox's Hackers Are 2 Russian Nationals, U.S. DOJ Alleges in Indictment"
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1:00.8 | The US Department of Justice charged Russian nationals, Alexi Bill Yucenko, and Alexander Werner, |
1:06.2 | with the 2014 Mount Gox hack, at the time one of the biggest thefts in crypto history. |
1:22.7 | The two gained unauthorized access to Mount Gox's wallets around September 2011, the DOJ said in a press release Friday, announcing the unsealing of a 2019 indictment, stealing 647,000 BTC over the course of nearly three years. |
1:24.5 | These funds were then laundered. |
1:31.4 | The DOJ alleged that Bill Euchenko was also an operator of defunct crypto exchange BTCE, alongside Alexander Vinick, who was previously charged with operating BTCE. |
1:35.6 | The DOJ also unsealed a 2016 filing focused on BTCE, which has long been linked to funds |
1:41.5 | laundered from the Mount Gauks theft. |
1:43.9 | Both face charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering, |
1:46.8 | while Bill Yucenko also faces a charge of operating an unlicensed money services business. |
1:52.5 | The DOJ's Southern District of New York and Northern District of California offices |
1:56.5 | both brought cases tied to the Mount Gox hack. |
2:00.3 | Mount Gox halted transactions in February 2014, |
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