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Who hacked the Mt Gox bitcoin exchange?

The US federal government has charged two Russian nationals in connection with the series of hacks that brought down the Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange in 2014.

Did Verner & bilyuchenko steal Bitcoin from Mt Gox?

A separate indictment unsealed this week shows that Verner and Bilyuchenko transferred the bitcoin they stole from Mt. Gox to BTC-e, TradeHill (another early bitcoin exchange shut down in 2013, according to Investopedia) and their own accounts at Mt. Gox itself.

Was Mt Gox hacked?

According to the indictment unsealed on Friday, Mt. Gox was hacked not long after the exchange was founded in 2010 by two Russian nationals, Alexander Verner and Alexey Bilyuchenko, as well as their unnamed co-conspirators. With most of its crypto gone, Mt. Gox declared bankruptcy in 2014.

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