New data on the Bitpoint hack arrives

As the days go by, new data arrives on the hack suffered by the cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint, which revealed that about half of its 110.000 users were affected by last week's attack, estimated at around $ 3,02 billion in yen (about $ 28 million).

According to the latest news in this regard, speaking at a press conference in Tokyo, the president of Bitpoint Genki Oda he specified that of the stolen 3,02 billion yen, 2,06 billion yen are attributable to its customers while 960 million yen consist of the company's own equity investments.

According to Oda, customer losses represent 13% of the total amount of cryptocurrency that users kept on Bitpoint: the exchange's top manager, as his colleagues from other exchanges identically affected had to do, undertook to repay the victims, with cryptocurrency, once the trading of your platform is fully resumed.

Theft, which included sums of digital currency expressed in Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin e Ripple, it was revealed last Thursday, announcing estimated losses of $ 32 million, a number then slightly reduced to $ 28 million. Furthermore, the idea that part of the stolen funds have already been recovered seems to be contradicted, as a moment of recovery of the exchange's activities is not already foreseen.

Recall that in September 2018 another Japanese exchange, Zaif, had suffered a similar attack, with 60 millions of dollars in cryptocurrency stolen.