identity theft please help?

levingout92

Mtgox.com lost all its bitcoins lately and on top of that they are rumors that hackers have also got all uploaded documents which means they have document with my address on it and also a scan of my passport, i have no idea what i have to contact about this and who to report it to, might be a stupid question.

Bepolite

The guards, please... pretty please... with sugar on top post and let us know how that went!

Bit what boyo... How did you only have bits of coins?

levingout92

thanks for your reply

bitcoins ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

Bepolite

I know exactly what they are. I'd suggest printing that out and giving it the guard.

levingout92

a right i will do that so, just worried what they can do with identity, bad enough the bitcoins are gone.

Bepolite

Naff all they can or will do. You might have grounds to cancel the passport. Only other thing to do is perhaps close any effected bank accounts.

I'm finding all this a tad ironic given the anonymous nature of the currency.

levingout92

there was no connected bank accounts to mtgox so should be fine that way. Dident want to trust a exchange with my personal documents but it was the only way to try and get coins out of them.

Bepolite

In all honesty there is very little they can likely do with your info thanks to Ireland still being in the bronze age in relation to online credit etc. I wouldn't lose too much sleep.

levingout92

thanks very much for replying, that will calm me down a bit now ha.

Bepolite

Fecking hell didn't realise they were still trading at over €400, tempted to put my 7990 to work. How many did you have OP?

I lost one when they were worth about €15, then they went to over €1000 - gutted!

levingout92

i lost about 3000 euro worth like, i just have to accept there gone now like. i bought 7.5 of them for $100 before to but lost them ha

Bepolite

levingout92 wrote: »

i lost about 3000 euro worth like, i just have to accept there gone now like. i bought 7.5 of them for $100 before to but lost them ha

Fook, you weren't mining?

Think of that poor basterd that threw away a HDD with £4.3m of them on. I'd have swam through sh!te down at the tip until I found it.

levingout92

no i never mined them, i saw one lad lost 4700 coins in mtgox. I dident lose to much so its not to bad, i dont think i ever get over it if i had 1000s of them mined and then lost them. Still no idea what really happned to mtgox cracking!!!

Bepolite

The cynical (and probably accurate) view:

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article44647.html

levingout92

its very risky like when there gone you never recover them ever, i got interested in dogecoin at the moment its fairly cool, i cant risk getting caught up in bitcoins again.

Oryx

levingout92 wrote: »

its very risky like when there gone you never recover them ever, i got interested in dogecoin at the moment its fairly cool, i cant risk getting caught up in bitcoins again.

And how will that be different?