In the early hours of January 26 a different kind of user found Coincheck all too friendly. Like a cat burglar in the dead of night, a hacker penetrated the company’s security and found a fortune in XEM sitting in a “hot wallet”, a computer connected to the internet. Best practice is to keep cryptocurrency in a “cold wallet”, isolated from the network. There is still no information on the location of the hacker, their identity or how the theft was carried out.

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