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  • Japan's Mizuho in U.S., Canada suits over Mt. Gox bitcoin losses

    03/16/2014 10:16:35 AM PDT · by Errant · 1 replies
    Reuters ^ | 16 March 2014 | Tom Hals and Amanda Becker
    Mizuho Bank, one of Japan's largest lenders, has became ensnared in North American legal fallout from Mt. Gox, once the world's biggest bitcoin exchange, which collapsed last month after losing nearly half a billion dollars worth of customers' digital currency. Lawsuits in the United States and Canada represent a new legal front - and a deep-pocketed defendant - in the battle over Mt. Gox, which claims hackers stole huge amounts of its own and its customers' assets. Mizuho, the core unit of Mizuho Financial Group Inc, Japan's second-biggest "megabank" by assets, was added as a defendant on Friday to an...