One of the largest electronic exchanges in Japan Coincheck reported the loss of NEM crypto currency by about $ 400 million, writes Bloomberg.
During a press conference in Tokyo, representatives of the company said earlier that they do not know how the NEM's 500 million coins were lost from the accounts of the exchange, but they are working to ensure the safety of all the funds of customers stored on accounts in Coincheck.
Earlier, the exchange had already announced the suspension of operations to withdraw the crypto currency from the accounts, as well as the trade in all crypto-currencies other than bitcoin, and introduced a ban on transferring funds to personal accounts in Coincheck in the NEM crypto currency
At present, the capitalization of NEM's crypto currency is $ 7.72 billion
The news about a possible hacker attack on the exchange caused the dropping of NEM crypto currency rates. So, at 21.30 Moscow time its average cost decreased by 8.75% - to $ 0.857465.