Missing Mt Gox Bitcoins Likely an Inside Job, Say Japanese Police

Yomiuri Shimbun Japan Mt Gox Front Page
Japanese paper readers started the year with bitcoin as front-page news

Criticize for 99 % of the bitcoins missing from Mt Gox landeds on internal system control and not any external attack, a major Japanese paper has declared.

Citing an unnamed source linked to the continuous cops examination, Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun paper led with the story on the front page of its new year’s day edition. It said that only 7000 BTC, or 1 % of the total 650,000 missing out on, might be credited to hacking attacks from outside the business.

Yomiuri did not clarify additionally on the matter.Continue reading

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