PANews reported on November 8 that according to Decrypt, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has set up a website to collect statements from people affected by the Bitfinex hack in 2016. The program aims to provide potential victims with the opportunity to tell the impact of Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife Heather Morgan's criminal behavior on them.
Despite the DOJ’s position that the crimes for which the convictions were made are victimless under the Crime Victims Rights Act (CVRA), the department is issuing this notice to the public to ensure that anyone who may have been harmed by the defendant’s actions is heard. This includes affected Bitfinex account holders.
Earlier on October 9, it was reported that the US prosecutors temporarily believed that the only compensation recipient who met the victim status in the 2016 Bitfinex hacker attack case was Bitfinex .
