Hackers Claim to Have Evidence of Fraud Surrounding Mt. Gox Closure
The hackers accessed a massive database and 716 megabyte file detailing over a million trades, among other things, and posted it to Karpeles' personal website.
*Mark Karpeles, CEO Mt. Gox (Bloomberg)
A group of hackers told Forbes that they’ve broken into Mt. Gox servers in order to bring to light what actually happened in the days leading up to the company’s bankruptcy filing, which left its customers without hundreds of millions of bitcoins. Mt. Gox has not been forthcoming with the Bitcoin community apart from attributing the closure to a massive hacker attack.
“Hackers took over the Reddit account and personal blog of Mark Karpeles, Mt.
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