Attack on the Coincheck Stock Exchange - NEM tokens worth over USD 400 million have been stolen
The cryptonews site reported that 526 million digital XEM currencies were stolen with good Coincheck cryptocurrency activity. The hacker attack proved to be effective, despite the advanced technology behind this cryptocurrency. The world itself was guilty.
XEM for cryptocurrency based on NEM technology. The current value of three coins is around 80 cents, which means that more than 420 million dollars have been stolen. Only three weeks ago, this amount of tokens would be worth over USD 1 billion.
The chairman of the NEM.io foundation said that the theft did not blame the technology on which the cryptocurrency is based. The hacker attack was broken, one of the exchanges did not use it. The foundation needs to load psychic cryptocurrencies to take advantage of this security.
Information about the theft captured a heavy decline in XEM quotes. Above above. Above. A yet. A yet. A 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80. The decreases were accompanied by a significant increase in volume.
The current exchange has suspended the possibility of withdrawing funds in all currencies, except for Bitcoin.