A federal court jury in Manhattan on Wednesday found a Maryland man guilty of hacking a cryptocurrency exchange and stealing more than $50 million.
Jonathan Spalletta, 36, of Rockville, was convicted on one count of computer fraud and one count of money laundering for hacking the Uranium Finance exchange twice in 2021, the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York said in a news release.
In his first hack on April 8, 2021, Spalletta manipulated the exchange’s smart contract program to make unauthorized transactions, withdrawing about $1.4 million in cryptocurrency…