Mt. Gox CEO's blog goes blank after alleged hack

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http://news.techworld.com/security/3505809/mt-gox-ceos-blog-goes-blank-after-alleged-hack/

By Jeremy Kirk
Techworld
10 March 2014

Hackers attacked the personal blog of Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles on Sunday 
and posted what they claim is a ledger showing a balance of some 950,000 
bitcoins based on records they obtained from the defunct exchange for the 
virtual currency.

They said the sum contradicts Mt. Gox's claim in a Japanese bankruptcy 
protection filing Feb. 28 that it had lost about 850,000 bitcoins.

Neither Karpeles nor Mt. Gox officials could immediately be reached to 
verify the claims.

Karpeles has maintained a low profile since the filing in Tokyo District 
Court. Mt. Gox, which pulled the plug on its website three days before the 
court filing, had announced that about 750,000 customer bitcoins it held 
are missing along with 100,000 of its own bitcoins and $27.3 million in 
customer deposits.

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