NEM was hacked for more than $1000 million dollars

in cryptocurrency •  7 years ago 

NEM was hacked for more than $1000 million dollars

The Japanese digital currency NEM was hacked. 523 million NEM coins were stolen from the Japanese digital currency trade, Coin check. Coin check was putting away these NEM on a "hot wallet", which is another approach to state that the coins were specifically connected to the web and clearly, helpless against an assault.

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This is why I actually have stressed the importance of a hardware notecase to secure your crypto assets, and that i simply warned regarding this kind of issue yesterday in an exceedingly this post.

This equates to $534.8 million bucks or regarding fifty eight billion yen.

This is a awfully substantial loss and doubtless the largest since the Mt. Gox scandal involving Bitcoin.

I feel unhealthy for anyone that lost funds during this attack, however let or not it's a lesson to perpetually secure the bulk of your funds via hardwallet. there's no excuse to depart them on any exchange.

Let's hope that the hackers eventually get caught which the folks that lost their funds might somehow have them recovered in the future. it is not terribly doubtless during this case, however you ne'er apprehend if the thieves might need left a path or if they're sloppy with their cashouts.

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