The Japanese currency exchange Coincheck was hacked and a record amount of virtual money was stolen from it.
One of Japan's most popular and largest cryptocurrency exchancges, Coincheck, abruptly abolished trading service for all its customers on Friday, and not long after that news of the hacker attack arrived. The leaders of Coincheck then held a press conference confirming the black suspicions - their stock exchange was attacked and 500 million NEM coins were stolen from their platform-
The market value of stolen cryptocurrencies is about $ 533 million. Expectedly, the price of NEMs immediately declined by 20 percent, but this does not diminish the damage done to Coincheck and its customers.
According to these data, the looting of virtual money from this Japanese exchange office has become the biggest cryptocurrency robbery in history.
Coincheck is announcing an investigation and is about to continue the business.
