Why do they have passport scan?
Identity verifications.
Mt. Gox Has Been Hacked by People Trying to Find Out What Happened?
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#12Wow, that's a lot of my personal data leaked in these last months. My email and encrypted password in the adobe breach, my user id and part of my mobile number via SnapChat, and now hackers potentially have scans of my passport courtesy of Mt. Gox. I'm probably forgetting about some leaks, and who knows how many security breaches were never discovered. The internet is not a safe place.
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#13Why do they have passport scan?
Edit: I misread the original post and thought they were scans of employee passports. Apparently a personal verification option was a scan of a passport.
I still have no clue why this kind of information would be kept on a public-facing server.
It's reaching a bit, but they may be scans of passports for foreign employees who need to be registered with proof of identity but do not (for whatever reason) have a form of identity that the Japanese government considers "official."
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#14Why do they have passport scan?
Probably customers send them to identify themselves.
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#15Why do they have passport scan?
It was part of the account creation process to verify your identity. You had to send in a government issue id and proof of address. I believe I sent in a copy of my drivers license and a cable bill but passport was also an option. I wouldn't be surprised if they have access to all the data that was collected for KYC purposes.
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#16I'm fluent in Japanese. I listened to the beginning of the recording and it's legit. One of the voices is almost certainly Mark Karpeles' (based on hearing his voice in his recent public apology -- his Japanese is broken but reasonably proficient). It seems to be a recording of a Jan 30 2014 meeting where bankers from Mizuho Bank are asking Karpeles various questions about Bitcoin, the nature of his business, his partnerships in different countries, connections to underground activity, etc. Definitely not something that's meant to be publicly released.
EDIT: Listening to snippets from the rest of the recording, it seems that Mizuho is explaining that they want to cancel Mt Gox's accounts with the bank. Karpeles seems to be protesting and asking why the accounts are being shut down. The guy from Mizuho explains (at 28:00 for Japanese speakers out there) that it's a combination of a lot of factors, including recent technical issues, which make the bank uncomfortable dealing with Mt Gox. Karpeles also mentions following the orders of the Financial Services Agency (金融庁）
EDIT2: 15:00~16:10: Mizuho guy explains that the Mt Gox bank accounts will have to be shut down eventually. Karpeles says that he understands that position, but he thinks that the bank has been rude about trying to force the closure, and would appreciate a more cooperative approach.
EDIT3: 18:00~19:00: An awkward discussion of Karpeles' Japanese. The Mizuho person seems to be offended by Karpeles' rude Japanese, which frequently lacks the correct honorifics that would be expected in a business setting. A woman (I think she's on the Gox team?) explains that Karpeles' first language is French and that he means no offense.
I can work on a fuller description of the call, but just wanted to get a quick verification of its authenticity out there, along with some snippets of the contents.
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#17In case my server goes, here is the text: Right now in ##mtgox-chat someone named nanashi____ claims to be speaking for a group of hackers who have gotten into Mt Gox in an attempt to figure out what happened. Nanashi says they have a DB dump and are looking at what to do with it. Nanashi gave these links: A conversation in Japanese with Karpeles and a Banker ( http://picosong.com/Y7di/ ) Some Mt Gox Code ( http://pa…
In case anyone's wondering, "nanashi" means "anonymous" in Japanese.
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#18I'm fluent in Japanese. I listened to the beginning of the recording and it's legit. One of the voices is almost certainly Mark Karpeles' (based on hearing his voice in his recent public apology -- his Japanese is broken but reasonably proficient). It seems to be a recording of a Jan 30 2014 meeting where bankers from Mizuho Bank are asking Karpeles various questions about Bitcoin, the nature of his business, his par…
Please consider typing out a full English translation. If you post your bitcoin address here, then I'm sure plenty of people here will pay you some coin for your effort.
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#19The code is ... interesting. Smells organic, not designed. Comments are rare but usually useful. Highly coupled. Static methods everywhere. Violates SOLID principles. Basically, ignores current best practices.
Clearly not designed for any sort of automated testing, which should be the first damn thing you do when there's any sort of money involved. Hell, even when there isn't money involved.
We'd already guessed that last bit, given the previous mentions of them having no testing/staging/QA environment.
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#20This will be another excuse to not release any official specific information about what happened.