[sequoia]

I'm really confused by the title, in particular the "on Mt.Gox" part. Was he "on Mt.Gox['s website]" when he came across this applet? He makes it sound like the exploit was on mt. gox.

If he got a trojan on a third party site that compromised his computer and Mt. Gox's site had nothing to do with it, this title seems a bit libelous. If in fact that's the case, I'd implore HN mods to change the title to something that doesn't unfairly cast aspersions on the Mt.Gox site.

FWIW: I have no bitcoins, I don't fully grok bitcoins, I'm scared of bitcoins, I don't use mt.gox or any vendor

[ScottBurson]

You have a point. His protestations notwithstanding, Mt. Gox does not appear to bear any responsibility for this at all. What happened was, he let his browser get pwned while he had his Mt. Gox account open in another tab. The coins were taken from his Mt. Gox account, but the security breach was on his end.

[pbreit]

The theft occurred on the MtGox web site. MtGix is in a position to defend such a robery and it would behoove it to do so.