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U.S. intel vets helped crypto firm soar, unaware of infamous hacker behind it

SAN FRANCISCO — An innovative company lionized for devising ways to crack passwords to huge cryptocurrency accounts has fallen into disarray since it began emerging that the firm was secretly co-founded by a once-celebrated hacker publicly accused of repeated sexual assaults.The previously unreported role of Morgan Marquis-Boire in the company, Unciphered, has especially unnerved employees and contractors who held secret clearances during past work with the CIA, NSA and FBI and who had introduce...

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