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Federal prosecutors on Tuesday accused a husband and wife from New York of laundering tens of thousands of bitcoins that hackers stole more than five years ago from an exchange registered in the British Virgin Islands, and seized a record haul of $3.6 billion worth of the cryptocurrency. The hackers, who remain unidentified, heisted nearly 120,000 bitcoins from Bitfinex in August 2016 by initiating more than 2,000 unauthorized transfers from the exchange to an unhosted wallet that contained an estimated 2,000 digital addresses, each "roughly equivalent to anonymous account numbers," prosecutors in Washington, D.C., alleged in a criminal complaint. The...