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		astrodust on Jan 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin exchange hacked via Rails exploit, funds s... Any exchange operator that didn't stop whatever they were doing, be it eating a sandwich or having a baby, and run to patch their servers has failed their user base completely. This was no undocumented zero day hack.

hackerboos on Jan 11, 2013 [–]

Exactly. They should have shut down immediately. This is amateur hour for the Bitcoin community, yet again.

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