Cybersecurity incident — 2018-01-26 00:00:00
Affected organization: Coincheck
Affected country: Japan
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Exploitation of End Hosts
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck confirms that some $524 million worth of digital coins (a cryptocurrency called NEM) has been stolenÃÆÃ'Ãâ 'ÃÆÃ¢â¬Â 'ÃÆÃ'ÃÂ¢Ã¢'Â¬ÃÂ 'ÃÆÃ'Ãâ ''ÃÆÃ''ÃÆ'Ã'ÃÂ¢ÃÆÃ'Ãâ 'ÃÆÃ¢â¬Â ''ÃÆÃ'Ãâ 'ÃÆ'Ã'ÃÂ¢'ÃÆÃ''ÃÆ'Ã'ÃÂ¬ÃÆÃ'Ãâ 'ÃÆÃ¢â¬Â ''"likely making it the largest single hack on an exchange.