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Re:Excoin exchange's Bitcoins stolen, will be shutting down by akerl_ on Sunday February 15, 2015 @03:02PM (#9053840)
It doesn't matter if you're storing bitcoins or roflcoins or pictures of kittens: in most places, maliciously accessing somebody else's computer system and stealing data is a crime.

The government investigates stolen "ones and zeros" all the time. The FDIC provides protection for users, but the lack of FDIC doesn't mean that no laws apply.

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Re:Excoin exchange's Bitcoins stolen, will be shutting down by panhandlr on Sunday February 15, 2015 @03:11PM (#9053882)
What about the laws the operators of the exchange broke by running un-audited code to handle financial transactions?
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Re:Excoin exchange's Bitcoins stolen, will be shutting down by akerl_ on Sunday February 15, 2015 @03:14PM (#9053894)
Assuming such laws apply to them, and assuming they broke them, "so?". Their guilt or innocence does not have any connection with any investigation of somebody hacking into their systems.
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