Categories: Cryptocurrency hack

Coincheck Cryptocurrency Exchange Hacked & Stolen More than $500 Million Worth Currency -World’s Biggest Cryptocurrency Hack Ever

Tokyo-based Coincheck Cryptocurrency Exchange Hacked and stolen more than $500 Million Worth NEM cryptocurrency by unknown hackers and it could be one of the Biggest hacking in the Cryptocurrency history.

Coincheck Announced that they are going to refund 523 million NEM for approximately 260,000 holders in a coincheck wallet in Japanese yen and it will be processing through Coindesk’s own fund.

Coincheck is one of the major Cryptocurrency exchange platforms in Japan and the exchange had over $160 million transactions per month.

Due to this major cyber attack, Coin check has been halted all the operations so Deposits made to make to customer accounts will not be reflected to customer balance.

Also Read: More than 30 million people have been Affected with Biggest Cryptocurrency Mining Attack

Coincheck Restricted all withdrawals from the platform and currently halting sales and purchases of NEM Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. NEM is now 10th Largest cryptocurrency with a market capitalization of $7.6Billion.

Coincheck said in the press conference that it held the NEM coins in a “hot” wallet, referring to a method of storage that is linked to the internet

Experts believe that Coincheck was not using multi-signature and aditional level security in cryptocurrency transactions.

But Coincheck investigating this attack about how it was compromised and how many customers were exactly affected.

A Press conference that atttend by Coincheck CEO  said, “We are deeply sorry for troubling people with this issue , we will soon resume all the operation but  it is unclear when the exchange will be able to resume transactions.
Also he said, the company didn’t know how the 500 million tokens went missing, and the firm is working to ensure the safety of all client assets.’

NEM Foundation vice president Jeff McDonald said, “We are trying to help them. We are tracking the funds that have been taken,” 

Currently, investigation of cause is a top priority. As soon as the cause is known, we will take measures to prevent recurrence as soon as possible. Coincheck said.

Balaji

BALAJI is an Ex-Security Researcher (Threat Research Labs) at Comodo Cybersecurity. Editor-in-Chief & Co-Founder - Cyber Security News & GBHackers On Security.

Recent Posts

Researchers Turn the Tables: Scamming the Scammers in Telegram’s PigButchering Scheme

Cybersecurity specialists have devised an innovative approach to combat an emerging cybercrime called "PigButchering" on…

20 minutes ago

New Spam Campaign Leverages Remote Monitoring Tools to Exploit Organizations

A sophisticated spam campaign targeting Portuguese-speaking users in Brazil has been uncovered by Cisco Talos,…

29 minutes ago

New Attack Exploits X/Twitter Ad URL Feature to Deceive Users

Silent Push Threat Analysts have recently exposed a sophisticated financial scam leveraging a vulnerability in…

33 minutes ago

Guess Which Browser Tops the List for Data Collection!

Google Chrome has emerged as the undisputed champion of data collection among 10 popular web…

36 minutes ago

DOGE Big Balls Ransomware Leverages Open-Source Tools and Custom Scripts for Multi-Stage Attacks

A recent discovery by Netskope Threat Labs has brought to light a highly complex ransomware…

51 minutes ago

Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) Emerges as a Leading Framework for Cyberattacks

Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) has solidified its position as the dominant framework driving ransomware attacks in 2024,…

58 minutes ago