Japanese crypto exchange Bitpoint lost $ 32 million in a hacker attack Licensed Japanese crypto exchange Bitpoint lost $ 32 million in a hacker attack, writes CoinDesk.

Japanese crypto exchange Bitpoint lost $ 32 million in a hacker attack

Licensed Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint lost $ 32 million in a hacker attack, writes CoinDesk.

As follows from the publication, Bitpoint suspended all services, including trading, depositing and withdrawing cryptocurrency assets, on Friday morning, after it noticed a suspicious operation to withdraw funds from its hot wallet, carried out on Thursday.

It is currently unclear which cryptocurrencies were stolen from Bitpoint. The exchange supports trading in five cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin and XRP.

The parent company of the exchange Remixpoint Inc. in an official statement said that $ 23 million of the stolen funds belonged to clients.

This is not the first time that a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange has been successfully attacked, after each of which the local regulator has carried out checks and tightened the rules. In September 2018, Zaif, also registered with the Japan Financial Services Agency, lost $ 60 million in cryptocurrency, and at the beginning of the same year, the Coincheck exchange nominally lost $ 520 million..

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