The Biggest Cryptocurrency Thief

The story of the biggest cryptocurrency thief is known as the "Mt. Gox Hacker Case", which is one of the most famous and largest thefts in the history of cryptocurrencies.

### Background:

Mt. Gox was one of the largest Bitcoin trading platforms in the world, processing about 70% of all Bitcoin transactions in the world by 2013. The platform was based in Japan, and was founded by Jed McCaleb, but later sold to Marc Karpeles, a French businessman.

### Story:

In 2014, things started to go seriously wrong. Users noticed delays in withdrawing their funds from the platform, and rumors spread about internal problems. In February of the same year, the Mt. Gox platform announced that it had lost 850,000 Bitcoin, which was equivalent to about $ 450 million at the time, and later this amount became equivalent to billions of dollars due to the rise in the price of Bitcoin.

### Investigations:

- Hacking: Investigations revealed that the platform had been hacked for years. It turns out that the hacker had been exploiting a security vulnerability to steal bitcoins gradually over the years without being detected. - Mark #BinanceBlockchainWeek #solana #solana #Binance #bitcoin $BTC $ETH $BNB Karpeles: Although Karpeles denied involvement in the findings: