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…

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