CLAIM: Florida men linked to JP Morgan hack were also running an illegal Bitcoin exchange
In 2014, hackers gained access to customer information on tens of millions of JP Morgan account holders.
Yesterday, authorities in Israel and the U.S. arrested four individuals who may have been connected to the incident.
Two of them allegedly ran an illicit Bitcoin exchange.
USA Today’s Kevin Johnson and Kaja Whitehouse report that Florida residents Anthony R. Murgio and Yuri Lebedev, along with two other individuals arrested in Israel, “initially surfaced in the government’s investigation of last year’s bank breach.”
In a criminal complaint released yesterday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Manhattan says Murgio and Lebedev ran a site called Coin.mx that violated anti-money-laundering laws by failing to properly check the backgrounds of its customers.