每经记者 李孟林 每经编辑 高涵 卢祥勇
2016年8月的一天，虚拟货币交易所Bitfinex遭黑客攻击，共有近12万枚比特币被盗。
On the day of August 2016, the Virtual Currency Exchange Bitfinex was hacked and nearly 120,000 bitcoins were stolen.
这宗案件成为仅次于日本“Mr Gox交易所被盗案”之后的史上第二大比特币盗窃案。受此影响，当天比特币直接暴跌25%。
The case became the second-largest bitcoin theft in history after the “Mr Gox Exchange theft” in Japan. Bitcoin fell directly by 25% that day.
在被盗比特币的价值已经从7100万美元暴涨至45亿美元的5年半后，当地时间2022年2月8日，美国司法部宣布，查获价值约36亿美元的失窃比特币，并以涉嫌洗钱和诈骗罪名逮捕了一对夫妇。这是美国司法部查获的最大一笔赃款。
Five and a half years after the value of the stolen bitcoin had skyrocketed from $71 million to $4.5 billion >, on 8 February 2022 local time, the United States Department of Justice announced that it had seized about $3.6 billion worth of stolen bitcoins and arrested a couple on suspicion of money-laundering and fraud. This was the largest amount of money seized by the United States Department of Justice.
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这对夫妇分别是34岁的伊利亚·利希滕施泰因（Ilya Lichtenstein）和他31岁的妻子希瑟·摩根（Heather Morgan），因涉嫌洗白这批被盗比特币而在纽约曼哈顿被逮捕。 The couple, Ilya Lichtenstein, aged 34, and Heather Morgan, his 31-year-old wife, were arrested in Manhattan, New York, on suspicion of washing away the stolen bitcoin. 法庭文件显示，2016年，黑客入侵了Bitfinex后执行了2000多次未受授权的交易操作，将119754枚比特币转入了利希滕施泰因控制的电子钱包里。美联社援引联邦执法人员消息报道，失窃比特币当时市值7100万美元，如今已超过45亿美元。 According to court documents, in 2016, after hacking into Bitfinex over 2,000 unauthorized transactions, transferred 11754 bitcoins into an electronic wallet controlled by Lichtensteinstein. Associated Press quoted federal law enforcement reports that the value of stolen bitcoins at that time was $71 million and now exceeds $4.5 billion. 随后的五年时间里，约有2.5万枚比特币通过各种洗钱手段转了出来，其中部分收益存入了利希滕施泰因夫妇控制的金融账户。 During the following five years, about 25,000 bitcoins were transferred through various money-laundering methods, part of which was deposited into a financial account controlled by the Lichtenstein couple. 《每日经济新闻》记者查阅美国司法部官网发现，两人使用的手段包括：利用虚假身份开设在线账户；用自动交易程序短时间内多次转移比特币来掩人耳目；把比特币存入各种各样的虚拟货币交易所和暗网市场后再取出，切断资金流动历史的追踪线索；把比特币兑换成其他匿名性更强的加密货币等。 A review of the United States Department of Justice network by the Daily Economic News journalist found that the means used by the two individuals included: opening online accounts using false identities; using automated transaction procedures for multiple transfers of bitcoins to cover their eyes; depositing bitcoins in various virtual currency exchanges and black-net markets before extracting them to cut the trace of the history of financial flows; converting bitcoins into other, more anonymous, encrypted currencies, etc. 据办案检察官介绍，在本月对两人曼哈顿住所的搜查中发现了一批一次性手机，在电子设备中发现了用于比特币开户的假身份文件夹，以及如何在暗网购买假护照信息的文件夹。 利希滕施泰因夫妇在社交媒体上自称是科技和加密货币行业的资深投资者。他们创立的企业包括风投基金Demandpath、加密货币钱包Endpass，营销公司SalesFolk等。法庭文件指出，这些公司都被两人用来合理化银行资金流动。 Lishtenstein claims to be a senior investor in the technology and crypto-money industry in social media. The companies they create include the windfall fund Demandpath, the encrypted currency wallet Endpass, and the marketing company SalesFolk. The court documents state that these companies were used by both to rationalize bank flows. 被逮捕时，两人已经花掉了数百万美元，但这仅占赃款的很小一部分。办案人员介绍，两人购买了黄金、数字资产NFT、沃尔玛礼品卡等。 At the time of their arrest, the two men had spent millions of dollars, but this was only a small fraction of the stolen money. . . . >. 图片来源：沃尔玛官网 ? 《华尔街日报》援引利希滕施泰因夫妇的一名友人称，虽然两人计划在纽约购买一套200万美元的公寓，但他们平时生活比较低调，比如，经常用里程积分买机票，去年的婚礼也办得很简单。 The Wall Street Journal quoted a friend of the Lichtenstein couple as saying that although they were planning to buy a $2 million apartment in New York, they usually had a lower profile. For example, they used mileage to buy airline tickets, and it was a simple wedding last year. 截至目前，两人未被指控对Bitfinex进行黑客攻击，美国司法部称相关调查还在进行之中。 To date, two persons have not been charged with hacking into Bitfinex and the United States Department of Justice has stated that the investigation is ongoing. 讽刺的是，据媒体报道，利希滕施泰因曾在推特上面警告人们要注意黑客袭击。摩根也曾撰写文章教人如何保护企业免受黑客的侵害，文章还包括数字货币交易所创始人讲述如何防止欺诈的采访。 Ironically, according to media reports, Lichtenstein warned people on Twitter about hacker attacks. Morgan also wrote an article on how to protect businesses from hackers, and an interview with the founder of the Digital Currency Exchange on how to prevent fraud. 恐将面临最高25年监禁 Bitfinex表示，公司一直在配合美国司法部展开调查，并将采取法律手段索回这批被盗的比特币。据报道，2016年Bitfinex宣布比特币被盗后，曾引起币价大跌25%。 Bitfinex states that the company has been cooperating with the U.S. Department of Justice in the investigation and will use legal means to recover the stolen bitcoin. was reported to have caused a 25% fall in currency prices after Bitfinex announced that bitcoin had been stolen in 2016. 《每日经济新闻》记者注意到，美国司法部执法人员对两人的网络账户进行了详尽搜查，最终获取了利希滕施泰因某个网络账户下的文件夹，里面存放了接收被盗比特币账户的“私钥”，执法人员遂收缴了账户里尚未转移的9.4万枚比特币。 The Daily Economic News Reporter noted that law enforcement officers of the United States Department of Justice had thoroughly searched the accounts of the two individuals' Internet accounts and eventually obtained a folder under an Internet account in Lichtenstein containing “private keys” to the receipt of stolen bitcoin accounts, and seized 94,000 bitcoins that had not yet been transferred from the accounts. 目前，破获利希滕施泰因账户的技术细节尚不清楚，但执法人员透露，由于区块链上的比特币交易记录是公开的且无法更改，这对调查过程帮助很大。 Currently, the technical details of the profitable Hittenstein account are not clear , but law enforcement officials revealed that the investigation process was greatly facilitated by the fact that the bitcoin transaction records on the block chain were public and could not be changed. 据悉，利希滕施泰因夫妇被控共谋洗钱，最高可判20年监禁，被控诈骗罪名最高可判5年监禁。当地时间2月8日，利希滕施泰因和摩根首次出庭，法官判定两人保释金分别为500万美元和300万美元。 美国司法部助理部长肯尼斯·波利特 (Kenneth Polite)表示，绝不允许加密货币成为洗钱活动的“避风港”和金融系统中的“法外之地”。去年10月，美国司法部协调部门内技术人力资源，建立了“全国加密货币执法队”，由肯尼斯·波利特领导。 Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of Justice Kenneth Polite stated that cryptographic currency must not be allowed to become a “safe haven” for money-laundering activities and an “extra-legal” in the financial system. Last October, the United States Department of Justice coordinated the establishment of a National Task Force for the Enforcement of Encrypted Currency, led by Kenneth Politit. 实际上，美国近来一直在加强对加密货币领域的执法能力。2021年5月，美国石油运输大动脉科洛尼尔管道系统遭遇勒索软件网络攻击，导致管道关闭数日，科洛尼尔管道无奈之下只得向勒索方支付了75枚比特币的赎金。一个月后，其中的63.7枚比特币被成功追回。 In fact, the U.S. has recently strengthened its enforcement capacity in the area of crypto-currency. In May 2021, the U.S. oil transport arteries Colonier Pipeline System was attacked by a network of extortion software, which led to the closure of the pipeline for several days, and the Colonier Pipeline was forced to pay 75 bitcoins of ransom to the extortioner. 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