4 billion dollar Bitcoin hack makes TikTok girl Heather Morgan an Internet sensation

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More than 1,00,000 Bitcoin, US $4,000,000,000, one of the biggest crypto hacks in the world, hackers and money untraceable for nearly 6 years… Sounds like a major heist, doesn’t it?



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BitFinex was hacked in 2016 and millions of dollars worth Bitcoin was stolen.

The US Department of Justice has caught up to the hackers, arrested them and come in possession of the world’s largest crypto-holding wallet. But can you imagine who carried out such a sophisticated heist – perhaps state actors from North Korea or Russia, or some big mafia connection, shrouded in mystery and a black hoodie with no face?

All guesses are WRONG in this case!

The Crypto world has proved to be even more surreal and crazy than ever before. The hackers behind the 2016 Bitfinex hack are a TikTok girl named Heather Morgan who made cringey rap videos, and her husband of dual nationality – Russia and the US, who ran ‘cloud services and solutions business’.

The US DoJ arrested 31-year-old Heather Morgan and her husband 34-year-old Ilya Lichtenstein in the 2016 BitFinex hack. More than the movie plot-like-story behind the hack and the recovery, netizens are going gaga over Heather Morgan.

Heather Morgan has become an instant hit among netizens in the hack story due to her unique online persona, unlike anything anyone would have ever imagined a hacker to be. Heather made rap videos on YouTube, TikTok and elsewhere under the name Razzlekhan. She also gave speeches on growing businesses and called herself a ‘serial entrepreneur’ and an ‘angel investor’. She described her art as ‘surreal’, her genre as ‘horror-comedy, with a splash of weird allure’.



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Heather Morgan’s profile on Forbes.

Before this, she also worked for Forbes as a writer between 2017 and 2021. Her Forbes bio reads: When she’s not reverse-engineering…

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