coincheck got hacked in Japan

[goncalvopietro]

Far East stock market has bad news in recent days. This is neither the first nor the last theft.
This stock market was known. Stock markets should be more careful.

[tushkanych]

The saddest thing is that exchange does not guarantee the safety of funds of its depositors. And when you attack it all goes to the scammers. And because of this, now we can observe a decline in the value of the NEM coin is 16.5%

[alyssa85]

An update: they are compensating people who lost coins:

https://twitter.com/ynakamura56/status/957275354527232000

BREAKING: Coincheck says it will compensate all losses to its NEM holders at a rate of 88.549 JPY ($0.81) per each coin. Says it is using its own capital to reimburse clients. Exact date of reimbursement not yet decided.

And here is the coincheck announcement in Japanese from their blog:

http://corporate.coincheck.com/2018/01/28/30.html