I don't understand why Mt Gox isn't able to pursue the thieves. You can only withdraw funds if you have a verified account. For verified accounts they would have proven the users identity.
It must be possible to work out which accounts have withdrawn more money than deposited.
Obviously the people who did this would have covered their tracks. However that being said, there should be ways that they can account for which user accounts stole coins. Go from there.
Are there even thieves? I mean, the whole story makes zero sense.
Supposedly the root of this was multiple withdrawals over the period of months. How is it remotely possible that Gox didn't have a real-time, if not at worst case daily, comparison between their wallet holdings, as reflected in the blockchain, and their outstanding "deposits"? How could that possibly be?
I just cannot buy that story. Saying "they were incompetent" doesn't explain it. The multi-withdrawal thing only makes sense if it was a mass exploit in a short period of time.
> How is it remotely possible that Gox didn't have a real-time, if not at worst case daily, comparison between their wallet holdings, as reflected in the blockchain, and their outstanding "deposits"? How could that possibly be?
Not to defend Mt. Gox, but they weren't the only company to be cyber-robbed recently:
It must be possible to work out which accounts have withdrawn more money than deposited.
Obviously the people who did this would have covered their tracks. However that being said, there should be ways that they can account for which user accounts stole coins. Go from there.