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		thrownaway954 on March 21, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Legitimisation of Have I Been Pwned that thread was from 2005... 13 years ago... would you like to quote something a little more recent???

pmarreck on March 22, 2018 [–]

Sure. MtGox, a PHP site, got hacked just a handful of years ago because its creator decided to write his own encryption software.

thrownaway954 on March 26, 2018 | [–]

got a source on that?

pmarreck on March 26, 2018 | | [–]

https://pirates-forum.org/Thread-Security-At-MtGox-Much-Wors...

which quotes the original source, which is now down but is still available at web.archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20140226001727/http://blog.magic...

Additional possible info: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2476003/cybercrime-hac...

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