US charges two men with Mt. Gox heist, the world's largest cryptocurrency hack
More than ten years after the hack of the now-defunct Mt. Gox cryptocurrency exchange, the US Department of Justice says it has identified and charged two men it alleges stole customers’ funds and the exchange’s private keys. Two Russians, 43-year-old Alexey Bilyuchenko, and Aleksandr Verner, 29, are charged with conspiring to launder 647,000 Bitcoins – in a cryptocurrency heist which would have been worth approximately half a billion dollars today. The DoJ alleges in the unsealed indictment that starting in 2011, Bilyuchenko and Verner stole huge amounts of cryptocurrency from Tokyo-based Mt…
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Source:TripWire – Graham Cluley