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Re:MtGox.com is offline by nknighthb on Monday February 24, 2014 @11:36PM (#7295602)
$460 million vanished in minutes when Knight Capital Group deployed code to the wrong servers in 2012.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group

Mizuho Securities lost around $400 million when a Tokyo Stock Exchange trader fat-fingered an order in 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizuho_Securities

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Re:MtGox.com is offline by crucifiction on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @12:37AM (#7295859)
Both were point mistakes, which I think anyone would agree are bad but just huge mistakes. Running what is effectively a bank that loses $400m over the course of a couple of years in a constant bleed is not a mistake, it is negligent.
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Re:MtGox.com is offline by nknighthb on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @12:55AM (#7295925)
The person I replied to suggested it wasn't negligence. Maybe you should argue about what words mean with him, first?
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