{"id":48073,"date":"2018-09-20T11:55:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T10:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48073"},"modified":"2018-09-20T11:55:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T10:55:27","slug":"60-million-of-digital-currency-stolen-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/60-million-of-digital-currency-stolen-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"$60 Million of digital currency stolen in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7132\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Bitcoin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"179\" \/>Bitcoin and other digital currency worth around 6.7 billion yen ($60 million) has been stolen in Japan following a hacking attack, a virtual exchange operator said on Thursday. &#8220;We decline to comment on the details of how this illegal access occurred, as it is a crime and we&#8217;ve already asked the authorities to investigate,&#8221; Tech Bureau said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It added that the virtual currencies stolen were bitcoin, bitcoin cash and monacoin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We will prepare measures so that customers&#8217; assets will not be affected&#8221; by the hack, it said, adding it would receive financial support from major shareholder Fisco Group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The current management team will step down after returning the lost assets to customers, Tech Bureau said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Japan&#8217;s financial services agency on Thursday began on-site inspections into the company, Jiji Press reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Japan is a major centre for virtual currencies and as many as 50,000 shops in the country are thought to accept bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier this year, Japan-based exchange Coincheck suspended deposits and withdrawal for virtual currencies after it had been hacked, resulting in a loss worth half a billion US dollars of NEM, the 10th biggest cryptocurrency by market capitalisation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Japanese authorities later ordered two cryptocurrency exchanges to suspend operations as part of a clampdown following the hack.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); 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