On the major exchange 'coin check', a virtual currency called NEM equivalent to 58 billion yen was leaked on the 26th of last month by unauthorized access from the outside.

In response to this, the company stops the withdrawal of "Japanese yen" and "virtual currency" kept from customers and buying and selling of virtual currencies other than bit coin, to investigate the cause and to confirm the safety of the system We are.

According to stakeholders, concerning the withdrawal of "Japanese Yen", we decided to restart on 13th next week, asserting that the safety of the system could be secured.

Although the user deposits "Japanese yen" in the account opened for the coin check, it is a mechanism to buy and sell the "virtual currency" with the account as it is, but after the leakage problem has occurred, deposits Suddenly, the situation that money can not be withdrawn continued.

However, with regard to withdrawal and trading of "virtual currency", it is still time consuming to verify the safety of the system because it deals with many types of virtual currencies and so on, so the restart is standing not. In addition, the time to compensate for the focused victims is still undecided.

On September 29, the coin check decides to submit a report summarizing measures to prevent recurrence, etc. from the Financial Services Agency by the Financial Services Agency by the 13 th next day, It is noteworthy how to show future direction about compensation etc. to people.