Japan - based Mt. Gox, formerly the handler of over half the Bitcoin transactions on the planet, was
shuttered after a theft of hundreds of thousands of Bitcoins.
The Poloniex
theft had followed that of Mt. Gox, which
shuttered last month and filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan
after years of undetected infiltration in which hackers stole 750,000 customer - owned Bitcoins and Mt. Gox's own stash of some 100,000 coins, estimated to be worth a total of US$ 500 million.