Biggest (digital) robbery ever
Hackers have embezzled more than $ 530 million from a cryptocurrency exchange in Tokyo. A record.
The biggest heist in history took place, without drum and trumpet, on the night of January 25 to 26. The Japanese exchange platform CoinCheck, specialized in cryptocurrency, recognized, at a press conference held last weekend in Tokyo, that a gang of hackers had entered its servers and had carried out a fraudulent transfer nearly 500 million Nems (XEM), corresponding to a booty estimated between 520 and 530 million dollars. Until then, the biggest (digital) robbery ever made was the one that hit the Mt Gox platform, also based in Tokyo, in February 2014. The amount devalued was around $ 450 million.
The CoinCheck site, which was trying to continue its activity, despite this hijacking, had to suspend all its operations on January 28. Its leaders have pledged to compensate the 260 customers victims of this attack, up to $ 000 million.
After fearing that other virtual currencies might have been targeted by hackers, the authorities wanted to reassure users. It is to secure their assets that the leaders of CoinCheck have made massive transfers of accounts. A movement of 110 million dollars, formulated in ripple, another very popular virtual currency, was carried out towards a “wallet”, a “wallet”, unknown to date. This transfer had caused a wind of panic on the markets, Friday afternoon.
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The good news is that, contrary to what the article asserts, this did not affect the price at all, on the contrary the bitcoin went up during the weekend but it has been trending down for weeks ...
You see I defend bitcoins here: economy-finance / bitcoin-and-cryptomonnaies-c-is-what-a-bubble-financial explanations-en-5 minutes Chrono-t15489.html
But I also speak of their faults ...
ps: it's still a lot less corners diverted than in 2013 ...