Topic: NEM (XEM) Official Thread - 100% New Code - Easy To Use APIs - page 221. (Read 2984910 times)

Hoping that the price would be stable . NEM platform would be in full swing and should dapps adapt its platform , this would drive developers swoop down and use it.

The only one able to return the XEM is the hacker himself. There might be a chance that the hacker is caught.  But might just have vanished after all

I wish I bought more XEMs while it was around 20 cents. Even though there were a lot of FUD and this exchange hack XEM $ price is pretty stable.

Storing on exchanges is terrible advice, especially for proof of stake coins like NEM. You can be secure AND earn some NEM storing it in your own Nano Wallet/Ledger.

You will most likely pay a whole lot more in the future. Get in while it's still dipping. 

seems  nem is a real good project ,  so regret to  miss  the nem boat ,   will buy some  in future , it is too expensive now.

So will they return NEM for coincheck users? If they find NEMs I think they can easily find out hacker's identity because to withdraw such a big amount money or BTC won't be possible without account verification, no?

Hi NEM Global,


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--

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Choice
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I guess it was not developed during these days.
Similar trackings have been practised already in the sockpuppet chase ...

The ability to instantly track coins. Developed in only hours after the hack.  

Unfortunately there are always people saying that it is safe enough to keep the coins on exchanges, I have recently responded to such a guy ... a Full Member, nearly Senior Member!:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.28661141


xenon131, I just saw you are one of us unfortunates who was just about to reach the next rank and will probably need a few weeks or months longer due to the new Merit system.  

Hopefully this theft may be a wake up call for other exchanges that might have not got their security up to date. I wouldn't have expected this to happen with such a large exchange.

Biggest crypto hack ever Loses more than $$500 Million,coincheck subsequently restricted withdrawals of all currencies, including yen, and trading of cryptocurrencies other than bitcoin.
coincheck management said in the press conference that it held the NEM coins in a "hot" wallet, referring to a method of storage that is linked to the internet. In contrast, leading U.S. exchange Coinbase says on its website that 98% of its digital currency holdings are offline, or in "cold" storage.

In another high profile case, Tokyo-based Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy in 2014 and said it lost 750,000 of its users' bitcoins and 100,000 of the exchange's own. The company was the largest bitcoin exchange at the time.

Sounds like a well-reasoned approach. The regulators want to make sure the exchange has its security in order, as they should.

Japan’s Financial Regulator Responds To Coincheck US$530M Hack

https://coinjournal.net/japans-financial-regulator-responds-coincheck-us530m-hack/


Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) plans to take administrative actions against hacked cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck after the company announced the loss of 523 million units of NEM cryptocurrency (about US$530 million) from a hack.

The FSA suspects that a lack of proper security measures allowed hackers to steal a record haul of cryptocurrency on Friday, according to a report by Nikkei Asian Review.

The regulator will issue a business improvement order to Coincheck later on Monday and order the company to strengthen its safeguards to prevent a recurrence, Japan’s chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga told a regular news conference.

The theft is said to be the biggest-ever losses of cryptocurrency to hackers. Coincheck halted withdrawals and trading in all cryptocurrencies on Friday, except bitcoin, and said in a statement that it would return the stolen money to the roughly 260,000 affected users. According to the announcement, the refund will be done using the company’s own capital. No date has been set yet for the payments or for a restart of trading on the platform, Coincheck’s chief operating officer Yusuke Otsuka told reporters.

Tracking the stolen funds

NEM Foundation interview Coincheck hack
NEM.io Foundation vice president Jeff McDonald interview with Inside NEM, Youtube
The NEM.io Foundation‘s vice president Jeff McDonald said in a statement on Sunday that the organization was “working on solutions to do the most we can to help Coincheck and also ensure the NEM community is protected.”

“We are currently reaching out to exchanges and exploring three different options,” McDonald said. “We also have a full account for all of Coincheck’s lost NEM cryptocurrency (XEM) on the blockchain. At this time, the hacker has not moved any of the funds to any exchange, nor to any personal accounts of NEM community members.”

The foundation said it was developing an “automated tagging system” to follow the stolen funds and tag any account that receives the tainted money.

In an interview with Inside NEM, McDonald said that when the stolen funds were moved out of Coincheck it appeared that the funds were stored in a hot wallet that had an exposed API and probably an exposed private key.

Coincheck should have used NEM’s multi-signature contract and cold storage to secure the funds, he said.

McDonald added that a NEM hard fork was out of the question. “A hard fork is not an option. The NEM protocol worked exactly as it was designed to work. It’s a terrible thing but I think if the funds were going to be returned that it would have to be the hacker returning the coins to Coincheck,” he said......

might be possible yes. So they would have to come up with half of the money or so. Maybe they will make everything public to restore the trust of the user to catch the falling knife in some extent

I honestly dont know how they found the funds, but in saying that, a huge percentage (at least 300M XEM) is theirs.
Perhaps the amount of XEM held by the members was alot less than we think?

To the contrary,

• It got a lot of publicity, and a lot of people who didn't know about NEM now know about NEM. Note that the hack had nothing to do, e.g. with NEM's shortcomings. It was the exchange that was hacked, not NEM, so the publicity isn't in bad light for NEM.
• The response from the exchange and NEM foundation has been swift. The community was kept up to date on many aspects. The foundation helped the exchange in all ways it could. The damage was limited.
• The NEM foundation was quick to reject any hard fork proposals. This is the right direction, and when it comes to it, will help distinguish NEM from ETH for instance
• The customers will be made whole, and presumably will go and buy back NEM on exchanges

Look on the bright side

LOL. So, whenever you buy a coin, you can post what you bought and where, and we'll stay away

No seriously, sorry to hear you lost some of your coins. It's rough when it happens. It is unfortunately rather common at this stage in our industry. Hopefully things get better.

I have this super-ability to invest a couple of bucks into coins that will be compromised the next day