Bitcoin auction going ahead despite US Marshals gaffe

June 20, 2014

The U.S. Marshals Service is going ahead with an auction of $18 million in Bitcoins even though it inadvertently leaked the identities of potential bidders. “The auction is proceeding as planned,” a spokeswoman for the service wrote in an email early Friday following revelations that the service had leaked the email addresses of people interested in the auction. It remains set for June 27. The addresses of the potential bidders were mistakenly copied to recipients of an email sent Wednesday with information about the auction, the Marshals Service said. “The message was intended to blind copy everyone with an attached document that contained frequently asked questions and answers on the subject,” spokeswoman Lynzey Donahue had said in a statement.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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