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Japanese Bitcoin Heist ‘an Inside Job,’ Not Hackers Alone

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The financial collapse of Mt. Gox, one of the world’s largest bitcoin exchanges, wasn’t just due to hackers, Japanese police suspect.

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The Japanese police are closer to completing their investigation into one of the large financial collapses in the virtual currency world last year, with a source close to the police claiming that “it looks like a partial inside job.”

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