US hacker sentenced over Bitcoin heist worth billions

A hacker has been sentenced to five years in a US prison for laundering the proceeds of one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency thefts. Ilya Lichtenstein pleaded guilty last year in the case involving the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange being hacked in 2016 and the theft of almost 120,000 bitcoin. He laundered the stolen cryptocurrency with the help of his wife Heather Morgan, who used the alias Razzlekhan to promote her

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Is it worth making your home more energy efficient?

Simon Duffy Getting good advice on making your house more energy efficient is not easy says Simon Duffy When Simon Duffy gets another energy bill, his heart sinks. “It’s madly expensive,” he says. Mr Duffy lives in a traditional stone-walled detached house in Sheffield. He estimates that he spends £3,100 every year on heating and electricity. Despite being someone who cares about climate change, and keen to retrofit his property

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Australia’s HMC Capital to list data centre trust worth $A4 billion By Reuters

By Scott Murdoch SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s HMC Capital will press ahead with the initial public offering of its data centres business that would be worth $A4 billion, according to its regulatory filings on Monday (NASDAQ:). A deal of that size would be the largest IPO in Australia this year. HMC Capital said the Digico Investment Trust (REIT) would have 13 data centres in its portfolio and 586 customers. Its

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