Russian Hackers May Have Masterminded the $530 Million Coincheck Theft

By CCN Markets: Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck was dealt a significant blow in January 2018, losing $530 million worth of New Economy Movement (NEM) tokens to an unknown group of hackers. It is widely believed that North Korean hackers were behind the biggest crypto exchange theft ever. But Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun reports that Russian hackers were the ones who orchestrated the attack. Russian breadcrumbs in the Coincheck crypto exchange hack The Japanese newspaper says that the examination of a Coincheck employee’s personal computer revealed a malware associated with Russian hackers. The hack was a result of the crypto exchange’s

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