360231 165723 030335 73 (<strong>4327<\/strong>=2566″ style=”max-width:440px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;”>TOKYO — Digital currency worth around 6.7 billion yen ($60 million) has been stolen in Japan following a hacking attack, a virtual exchange operator said on Thursday. Osaka-based Tech Bureau, which operates virtual currency exchange Zaif, said its server had been illegally accessed and money transferred. </p> </p> <p>“We decline to comment on the details of how this illegal access occurred, as it is a crime and we’ve already asked the authorities to investigate,” Tech Bureau said in a statement. </p> </p> <p>It added that the virtual currencies stolen were bitcoin, monacoin, and bitcoin cash. </p> </p> <p>More in Cybersecurity </p> </p> <p>“We will <a href=prepare measures so that customers’ assets will not be affected” by the hack, it said, adding it would receive financial support from major shareholder Fisco Group.

Japan is a major center for virtual currencies and as many as 50,000 shops in the country are thought to accept bitcoin.

Earlier this year, Japan-based exchange Coincheck suspended deposits and withdrawal for virtual currencies after it had been hacked, 전주콜걸 resulting in a loss worth half a billion U.S. dollars of NEM, the 10th biggest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.

Japanese authorities later ordered two cryptocurrency exchanges to suspend operations as part of a clampdown following the hack.