{"id":27491,"date":"2020-08-20T10:34:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T07:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=27491"},"modified":"2025-08-26T21:06:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T18:06:48","slug":"japanese-authorities-confiscate-nem-cryptocurrency-stolen-from-coincheck-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/japanese-authorities-confiscate-nem-cryptocurrency-stolen-from-coincheck-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese authorities confiscate NEM cryptocurrency stolen from Coincheck exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The Tokyo District Court ordered the confiscation of the NEM cryptocurrency stolen from the Coincheck exchange from one of the suspects in the investigation, who bought the coins after the hack, <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2020\/08\/19\/national\/crime-legal\/cryptocurrency-coincheck-cyberattack\/\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The Japan Times.<\/span><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The court issued a <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Restraining_order\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">restraining order<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> against the assets that the defendant Takaesi Doi obtained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Authorities say that, although Doi knew the coins&#8217; provenance, this did not stop him from buying them on the dark web at a discounted price. He later moved the assets to several exchanges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The assets are currently frozen. They will be transferred to the state after a final decision in the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Coincheck was hacked in 2018. Hackers stole more than $530 million in NEM cryptocurrency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The investigation continues; the hackers remain at large.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tokyo District Court ordered the confiscation of the NEM cryptocurrency stolen from the Coincheck exchange from one of the suspects in the investigation, who bought the coins after the hack, The Japan Times reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[982,1162],"class_list":["post-27491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-coincheck","tag-court-cases"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"12","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27492,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27491\/revisions\/27492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}