Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-05-31 00:00:00
Affected organization: Coincheck
Affected country: Japan
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Message Manipulation,Exploitation of Data in Transit
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck says hackers took control over its account at Oname.com, a local domain registrar and hijacked one of its domain names, which they later used to contact some of its customers.