“A Melbourne bitcoin trader says he was targeted by a hacker and tricked out of about $70,000 worth of bitcoins after the US Marshals Service accidentally leaked his email details.
The CEO of Bitcoins Reserve, Sam Lee, registered his interest to bid in an auction of 30,000 bitcoins confiscated by the US Marshals when it shut down the online marketplace Silk Road last year.
Mr Lee said his contact details were made public after the addresses of all interested investors were copied (CC) into an email, rather than blind copied (BCC).
"Unfortunately there was a stuff-up on the US Marshal Service's end where they CC'ed everyone instead of BCC'ing everyone and that meant everybody who got the email knew who all the other bidders were," Mr Lee said.”
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