Mt Gox Depleted of Bitcoins by 2013 Says New Wizsec Report
Mt Gox had been depleted of most of its bitcoin by 2013 according to a new report from Wizsec, the Tokyo based bitcoin security firm, which has been conducting an ongoing unofficial investigation into Mt Gox’s collapse. The theft had been ongoing since 2011 and many of the missing bitcoins were stolen straight out of Mt Gox’s hot wallet. A significant amount of the stolen bitcoins were deposited at various exchanges like BTC-e, Bitcoinica, Mt Gox itself, and other not yet identified wallets, and subsequently sold for cash. This led Mt Gox to be operating “knowingly or unknowingly” at....
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Tokyo-based independent Mt. Gox investigator WizSec released yet another report on the ill-fated Bitcoin exchange that went into the dust last year after suffering a 850,000 BTC theft. In its latest findings, the firm revealed that Mt. Gox's Bitcoins were stolen long before its actual collapse, adding yet another game-changing event to the unsolved case. According to the lead independent investigator Kim Nilsson, the Bitcoins stored in the exchange's hot wallet started leaking out in 2011, three years before the actual reported theft. "As a result," he added, "MtGox operated at fractional....
Mt Gox's missing bitcoins were stolen from the exchange over a period of time beginning in 2011, according to a new report released today by a group investigating its collapse. They were gone long before the company's collapse in February 2014, the report said. Gox had therefore been operating on a fractional reserve basis for most of that time, either knowingly or unknowingly. The stolen bitcoins had been withdrawn and sold off on various exchanges including Mt Gox itself, and given the timing probably at prices far below the 2013-14 highs. Tokyo-based bitcoin security firm WizSec, which....
The role U. S. government agents played in bitcoin thefts at Mt. Gox in 2013 has generated a lot of media coverage recently. But one security firm investigating the Mt. Gox thefts, Tokyo-based WizSec, believes the agents did not play a significant role in the missing bitcoins. The Mt. Gox exchange collapsed in early 2014 and declared bankruptcy. In a recent blog post, WizSec provided an update on its investigation. "First of all: no, we don't think these agents are main characters in the story of the missing MtGox bitcoins, and the story doesn't begin in 2013 either," the blog post noted.....
The Bitcoin community has always speculated that Mt. Gox was insolvent before its collapse in early 2014. A new study done by WizSec now confirms this speculation. The study reports that MtGox was insolvent long before it collapsed, with thieves were routinely stealing bitcoin from the exchange’s reserves. The WizSec study also confirms that the majority of the missing Gox bitcoin was stolen by someone on the inside — echoing a report from The Yomiuri Shimbun that the coins were lost due to fraud rather than an external hack. The report cited sources at the Japanese Metropolitan Police....
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