Megan Geuss reports:
The US Marshals Service is in charge of auctioning off almost 30,000 bitcoins that the federal government seized from Silk Road servers last year, and it had planned to do so in an anonymous auction this month. But that anonymity was compromised on Wednesday when the US Marshals Service accidentally revealed the names of several potential bidders by sending around an auction FAQ to a group of e-mail addresses that it placed in the CC field rather than in the BCC field.
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