Mt. Gox Hackers Extorting BTC for Customers' Personal Information
Russian hacker Nanashi claims to have a database of Mt. Gox customers' personal information. About a week ago, Russian hacker "Nanashi" leaked the entire source code for Mt. Gox. Unsurprisingly, considering how unprofessional Mt. Gox has been, the code is pretty bad. Some random red flags:- There's a class with the name of the application. (Issues: Scope, SRP). - There's a class with 1708 lines of code. (Scope). - There's a switch-case statement that runs over 150 LOC (readability, maintainability). - There's a string parsing function in the same class as transaction processing (Separation....
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