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Hackers claim bankrupt Mt. Gox still has customers' bitcoins

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Tokyo-based Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox lost $400 million worth of bitcoins in February. Its management said the amount was stolen after hackers exploited a transaction bug to divert the funds, but some of Mt. Gox's users are not so sure, suggesting instead that the exchange's owners pocketed the cash.

Forbes reports that the group gained access to the personal blog and Reddit account of Mark Karpeles, Mt. Gox's CEO. The hackers used the platforms to post a message that claimed Karpeles still had access to some of the bitcoins that he'd reported stolen.

In support of the claim, they uploaded a series of files that included a spreadsheet of more than a million trades, Karpeles' home addresses, and a screenshot purportedly confirming the hackers' access to the data.Also included as part of the 716MB file was a file that appears to show the exchange's balances in 18 currencies.

The hackers point to this file — which reportedly shows a balance of 951,116 bitcoins — as evidence that Mt. Gox is misrepresenting the current situation. A note in the file from the hackers reportedly reads "That fat fuck has been lying!!"

Several posters on Reddit and Twitter report they've verified their personal account balances with the data in it -- also available as an Excel spreadsheet -- tied to the user id included in their first Mt. Gox registration e-mail.

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Source :http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/10/5489582/mt-gox-hackers-say-exchange-still-has-customers-bitcoins

             http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/09/bitcoin-mark-karpeles-mt-gox-blog-hack-database/

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ehh whats the point

he killed him self

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ehh whats the point

he killed him self

Sorry what? Did he actually? I'm not really following this whole Mt. Gox thing.

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ehh whats the point

he killed him self

Wow, what? I only heard that Mt. Gox went bankrupt! 

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Sorry what? Did he actually? I'm not really following this whole Mt. Gox thing.

 

 

Wow, what? I only heard that Mt. Gox went bankrupt! 

 

http://intellihub.com/28-year-old-bitcoin-exchange-ceo-found-dead-apparent-suicide/

 

turns out the CEO killed her self not the owner

my bad

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Called it. And the fact that they aren't getting away with it makes it all the more interesting.

Btw users saying that it lines up with their personal data pretty much makes this fact that they're embezzling.

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Acually, I'm not surprised at all with any of this. Of course this was gonna hapen in the early days of cryptocurrency. The main reason I haven't jumped aboard.

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I highly doubt it was a suicide look at all the people that would want her dead thats to much of a coincidence imo.

 

Unlikely, considering the lack of initial evidence of that, as well as there not actually being that many people that would seriously want her dead.

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http://intellihub.com/28-year-old-bitcoin-exchange-ceo-found-dead-apparent-suicide/

 

turns out the CEO killed her self not the owner

my bad

 

 

I highly doubt it was a suicide look at all the people that would want her dead thats to much of a coincidence imo.

 

Uhm, I could be wrong, but this has nothing to do with Mt Gox.  The CEO was from a new company starting up in the US that would "replace" Mt Gox.

 

As for the hack, I wonder whether or not the funds still "available" are actually truly there.  It would be akin to having a bank having all the money stolen.  All the accounts put together will still have a positive balance, but the bank doesn't have the funds to actually cash out.

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From my understanding, First Meta has nothing to do with Bitcoins, just a few other cryptocurrencies.

 

The media just misunderstands.

 

And on the Mt Gox thing... Yeah, I think everyone was suspecting the administration to run off with the money. The only proof we have that they didn't is an alleged paper and the man's word.

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Unlikely, considering the lack of initial evidence of that, as well as there not actually being that many people that would seriously want her dead.

If i could of been a millionaire i would of wanted the person in charge to be dead seriously think about how u would be if u had like a million dollars in a bank and then it just disappeared and obviously the person who killed her doesn't to get caught so why would there be evidence lol even if they say it was a suicide for sure i still wont believe it.

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If i could of been a millionaire i would of wanted the person in charge to be dead seriously think about how u would be if u had like a million dollars in a bank and then it just disappeared and obviously the person who killed her doesn't to get caught so why would there be evidence lol even if they say it was a suicide for sure i still wont believe it.

 

If there was no obvious initial evidence of anything but a suicide, I think it's somewhat safe to assume that it was one. Of course, I could be completely wrong, but we often hear stories of people who just lost that much money shooting themselves or jumping off of buildings. It makes sense that it would be a suicide, and murder just seems like speculation at this point. Regardless, I'm not going to argue with someone who doesn't know how to use periods.

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omg i just found my 4.2 bitcoins :o

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Using my psych powers.... The owners pocketed the cash and hired or used "hackers" to pretend the coins were gone. The CEO knew something about the scandal and they killed her for knowing too much. 

 

But I'm just bored. 

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Just because there is a spread sheet that stated that there is supposed to be 951,116 bitcoins in an account does not mean that there is actually is that many bitcoins in the account. 

 

The spreadsheet is an accounting of how things should be.  The problem is that they did not reconcile what there should have been with what was really there, so when bitcoins went missing it wasn’t noticed. 

 

The spreadsheet is not evidence of fraud, its evidence of incompetence and poor accounting practices.

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This is why we need hackers and people like anonymous.

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