Athena Bitcoin is accused of stealing the source code of AML's Bitcoin ATM

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, AML Company has accused Bitcoin ATM operator Athena Bitcoin Inc. in a federal lawsuit of orchestrating a "fraudulent scheme" to steal the computer source code used for Bitcoin ATMs from AML Software Inc., constituting copyright infringement and misappropriation of trade secrets.

According to the complaint filed in the Southern District of Florida federal court, Athena entered into agreements through a series of transactions with entities that it knew were transferring AML source code to it. AML claims that parts of the source code are trade secrets, known only to developers who have signed non-disclosure agreements.