Ok, some good news. It might be untrue about them having passport scans. Reason I say that, is the following:
We know from the leaked mtgox crisis plan doc that they have 550,000 verified accounts.
Each user who wanted to be verified had to scan at least 2 documents- a passport+license and a electric bill of sorts.
Assuming both documents alone were only 100KB combined (and its likely way more than that since scans are usually 500KB+ per document) than we can estimate the file size:
550,000 x 100KB = 52.45GB
Thats more than double the claimed 20GB.
In fact, even if we believe that every persons doc is in the DB; and assuming nothing else but passports is in there- you are only allowing for 20KB per document
We know from the leaked mtgox crisis plan doc that they have 550,000 verified accounts.
Each user who wanted to be verified had to scan at least 2 documents- a passport+license and a electric bill of sorts.
Assuming both documents alone were only 100KB combined (and its likely way more than that since scans are usually 500KB+ per document) than we can estimate the file size:
550,000 x 100KB = 52.45GB
Thats more than double the claimed 20GB.
In fact, even if we believe that every persons doc is in the DB; and assuming nothing else but passports is in there- you are only allowing for 20KB per document