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😱🫨New Mt. in Japan Gox case: $300 million worth of Bitcoin was stolen
The Japan-based #DMMBitcoin Bitcoin exchange was hacked and $300 million worth of Bitcoin was stolen from the exchange. The company will pay compensation to those who suffered losses.
#Bitcoin worth 48 billion yen (about $ 305 million) has been stolen from DMM Bitcoin, one of Japan's major exchanges. The news was shared by Japanese media Nikkei.
In the news, it was stated that the stock exchange management decided to pay compensation to those who suffered losses. In a statement from the exchange where more than 4500 Bitcoins were stolen, “You can be sure that you will get back as many Bitcoins as you lost. The assets of our company and the assets of our customers are kept separately. ” it was said.
As it is known, in Japan, the law allows exchanges to keep their own assets and customer assets separately.
Membership, purchasing and leveraged transactions have also been suspended on the exchange for the time being.
The biggest one happened in 2018
In the cryptocurrency world, Japan is the most Mt. Gox is known for the hacking incident. in 2014, Mt. More than 800 thousand BTC were stolen from Gox and the stock market sank. Mt. Gox will start making payments to its victimized customers in a short time, about 10 years later.
Japan's biggest hacking attack in this sense took place in 2018. 58 billion yen worth of Bitcoins were stolen from the Coincheck exchange.
