Tokyo police arrested 2 people to Coincheck-Hack include
The Tokyo police on Wednesday arrested two persons, because you have purchased stolen NEM from the Coincheck-Hack of 2018. 26. January 2018, the Japanese trading platform Coincheck noticed a “illegal Transfer” of 523.000.000 NEM. This was the largest crypto-Hack since Mt Gox. According to the Tokyo-based investigators, the two men who received the stolen NEM knew that the Coins come from the Hack.
Officials from Tokyo have arrested two men, because they have bought stolen NEM (XEM) from the Coincheck-Hack two years ago. In the last week of January, 2018, the Japan-based trading platform has been hacked, with more than 523 million NEM (XEM) have been lost. The exchange rate compromise (530 million dollars using the exchange rates as of 2018) was the largest Hack of a stock exchange since the Mt Gox Hack of the year 2013. After the Coincheck-Hack, the company has informed the 260,000 affected users that they would pay the amount to a course of 88,549 JPY per XEM back.
In the first week of March 2018, it was found that more than 40% of the stolen Coincheck-were washed money. At the end of the same month, was set out in a Nikkei report that almost all of the stolen XEM about Deep Web-the channels were washed. To be sold this time, the XEM-seller in the DarkWeb currency to a fraction of what it sold XEM on the spot markets. The Tokyo-based security firm L Plus confirmed that the seller sold on the Deep Web all the coins, and the XEM-Wallet of the seller has been emptied.
The two men are accused of accepting criminal income, and to have on the organized crime involved. On Wednesday, 11. March, revealed the Tokyo police that two men were arrested for buying stolen XEM. A doctor and a senior employee of the company, both mid-30s, were taken into custody after it was established that the currencies of a number of Crypto, including BTC, against the stolen coins had exchanged. Allegedly, the two men have purchased the XEM in the months of February and March 2018. In addition, the Tokyo police accused the men, to have knowingly crypto money, that was involved in a crime.
After the Coincheck-Hack the NEM Foundation has promised that you can keep track of the coins on the Mosaic Tracker-log. But the stolen money were immediately sent to the Deep Web, and in the Reports is described in detail, that the hackers who sold the coins, built a largely automated System, to sold the XEM 15-20% below the original price. The stolen NEM-seller created even a ticket system for people who had problems with their Transfers, and they accepted only BTC and LTC. Because the Hacker sold the coins in this way, and against BTC and LTC traded in, was considered the mosaic-Tracker-Protocol-the NEM-Foundation as failed.
21. March 2018, the disabled, the Foundation of the Tracker, and set the marking of the stolen XEM. The two on Wednesday in Tokyo men arrested are the first two people who were arrested because of their connection to the Coincheck-compromise in custody. As of now, the reports on the story in Japan are somewhat contradictory, and the two persons could very well be the main suspect of the hacker.
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