Police to launch investigation headquarters for cryptocurrency theft

Police will soon set up an investigation headquarters to step up their probe into last month's massive theft of cryptocurrency from virtual currency exchange operator Coincheck Inc., sources close to the matter said Friday.The Metropolitan Police Department's cybercrime division will assign some 100 investigators to the task on Monday, they said. The investigators will mainly analyze data pertaining to unauthorized access to Coincheck's servers.On Jan. 26, Coincheck lost NEM coins worth about 58 billion yen ($542.59 million) at the time to hackers. Cybersecurity experts have said the stolen…READ FULL ARTICLE