North Korea stole huge amount of virtual currency: South Korea spy agency

South Korea's intelligence agency informed parliament on Monday that North Korea's theft of virtual currency from the country last year was on the scale of tens of millions of dollars, according to parliamentary sources.They said the National Intelligence Service also briefed the National Assembly that it is investigating whether North Korea was behind hackers' theft of digital money worth 58 billion yen ($534 million) from Japanese virtual currency exchange Coincheck on Jan. 26.The NIS said tens of billions of won in cryptocurrency were stolen from South Korea cryptocurrency exchanges last…READ FULL ARTICLE