Two brothers arrested for Bitfinex hack and multi-year cryptocurrency phishing campaign

Computer crime authorities in Israel have arrested two brothers in connection with a phishing campaign that spread over multiple years and the 2016 hack of the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange. 21-year-old Assaf Gigi and his older brother Eli, both from Jerusalem, were arrested by Lahav 433 (the Israeli equivalent to the FBI) on suspicion of hacking into the virtual wallets of cryptocurrency investors and stealing thousands of Bitcoins over a long period of time, amassing themselves tens of millions of dollars.

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