2 entries tagged “japan”.
About $305M (4,502.9 BTC) was stolen from the Japanese exchange DMM Bitcoin in May 2024. The FBI, DC3, and Japan's NPA attributed it to North Korea's TraderTraitor, which used a fake-recruiter lure to compromise an employee at wallet vendor Ginco. DMM later wound down.
The Japanese exchange Coincheck lost about 523M NEM tokens (~$530M) to attackers in January 2018 — then one of the largest crypto thefts. The coins had been stored in an internet-connected hot wallet; Coincheck pledged to reimburse affected users.
