A former employee has reportedly pleaded guilty to embezzling NZD 245,000 (USD 172,000) worth of cryptocurrencies and stealing customer data from the now-defunct New Zealand-based crypto exchange Cryptopia. 
According to a report by local news outlet Stuff, the ex-employee has admitted to two charges: theft by a person in a special relationship, and theft of over NZD 1,000 (USD 700). He will receive his official sentence on October 20. The Christchurch district court has granted the man interim name suppression.
The ex-employee reportedly had issues with management about the handling of private keys for many wallets held by the exchange. At one point, the employee made an unauthorized copy of private keys from Cryptopia’s wallets and saved it on an external storage device, transferring the information to his personal computer. 
Per a summary of facts from the hearing, this gave him access to tens of thousands of digital wallets and access to over NZD 100 million (USD 70.2 millio

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