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Silk Road Hacked: $2.7 million taken

Accepted submission by Gaaark mailto:mcneely.mike@gmail.com at 2014-02-15 18:47:53
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Silk Road 2 Hacked, $2.7 million (£1.6m) in bitcoins withdrawn.
According to the BBC, BBC [bbc.co.uk], the site, only accessible through the Tor anonymizer program, was hacked through the manipulation of 'computer code' which enabled the $2.7 million win.
The link above has info on the Silk Road hack and previous hacks of other sites, as well as info on how the Bitcoin currency works.

Do you 'collect' Bitcoins? Do you feel comfortable as to it's future now that countries have started banning it? [bloomberg.com]

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