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Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Zaif last week was the victim of a burglary, and damage is estimated at 6.7 billion yen (approximately $59.7 million)/ this was reported by the operator of the exchange, Tech Bureau in a press release.

Unauthorized entry into the system of exchanges took place on 14 September, but was only discovered 17 th. A hacker managed to steal the hot wallet a certain amount of BTC, MONA and BCH. Exactly the damage the hacking, Zaif will be able to determine when the server is restarted. While the company believes that it is impossible for security reasons.

Abducted by a preliminary estimate of 6.7 billion yen cryptocurrency assets, equity exchange’s $ 2.2 billion yen. Other customer funds, which the company promises to compensate in the yen.

Recall that the financial services Agency (FSA) of Japan this year, has tightened the rules regulating the cryptocurrency market, after the largest of the January burglary of the exchange Coincheck, the damage from which amounted to $530 million In February, the FSA conducted inspections of control systems and safety kryptomere, including Zaif. However, later in the same month on the crypto currency exchange there was a system failure that allowed the traders to buy bitcoins for free.

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