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Re:Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M:... by justboxing on Friday January 26, 2018 @03:23PM (#16242567)
Over 100 Million XRP ( Ripple ) worth 130 Million USD was also allegedly stolen.

Source:

Here's the original tweet from Bloomberg Tech Reporter in Toyko, Yuji Nakamura. https://twitter.com/ynakamura56/status/956790270036619265

Tweet In English:

> Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck halts withdrawals, deposits, trading in NEM. Rumors is a big chunk was moved from their wallet. Also seems >$130m of XRP moved out too. I called Coincheck, but they wouldn't answer questions and asked me to email them

Here's the actual Ripple XRP Transaction that is moving the 101-ish Million XRP out of the Coincheck account. https://xrpcharts.ripple.com/#/transactions/FC32DBF1C0CE6780...

Here's a news page / story that is following this and updating it frequently. It mentions that XRP was also stolen in addition to NEM. https://bitpinas.com/news/coincheck-suspends-nem-trading-rum...

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Re:Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M:... by TheAdamist on Friday January 26, 2018 @09:28PM (#16244500)
The stolen 101m xrp moved into an account that already had 3billion xrp? That seems odd to begin with. Is it another exchange or coin tumbler or something?
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Re:Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M:... by ribosometronome on Saturday January 27, 2018 @12:05AM (#16244936)
That wallet only has 45 transactions on it -- that doesn't seem reasonable for a tumbler or an exchange, does it?

Also, 3 billion XRP means that they have 12% of all circulating XRP right now.

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Re:Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M:... by ReverseCold on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:11PM (#16243318)
The 530M figure was in XEM (been floating around $1) - but that may be an additional amount.
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