The couple faces federal charges for allegedly laundering stolen Bitcoin through various accounts over the past five years. In what is the largest cryptocurrency confiscation, the US Department of Justice has seized stolen Bitcoin worth more than 3.6 billion dollars (£2.65 billion) from a rapper and her husband. The stolen cryptocurrency has been linked to the hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange, whose systems were hacked nearly six years ago. A hacker breached the platform, made more than 2,000 unauthorised transactions and then funnelled the money into a digital wallet allegedly run by Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, of New York, according to Justice Department officials. Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife, Heather Morgan, were arrested in Manhattan on Tuesday morning and face federal charges for allegedly laundering about 25,000 of the stolen Bitcoin through various accounts over the past five years. ‘Today’s arrests, and the department’s largest financial seizure ever,...