The Japanese licensed cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint reported a burglary. According to preliminary data, cryptocurrencies worth $ 32 million were stolen from the platform.
According to CoinDesk Japan, on Friday morning, Bitpoint suspended all services, including cryptocurrency trading, after the day before the exchange discovered unauthorized withdrawal of funds from its hot wallet.
It is not clear which types of assets have been stolen. The exchange itself offered trading in five cryptocurrencies: BTC, BCH, ETH, LTC and XRP. Remixpoint Inc., the parent company of the exchange, said that $ 23 million of the stolen funds belonged to its customers.
Hacking Bitpoint filled up a series of incidents with Japanese exchanges. In September 2018, the licensed Zaif exchange was also hacked and lost $ 60 million in cryptocurrencies. After that, the Japanese regulator tightened control over the market.
In addition, in January 2018, as a result of the hacking of the Coincheck exchange, NEM worth $ 530 million was stolen, which was one of the biggest thefts in the history of the cryptocurrency industry.
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