One Week Later: Update on the CoinCheck hack

January 26th marked the date when CoinCheck, a top performing Japanese cryptocurrency exchange publicly shared that they’ve been hacked. Soon after information was shared that Ripple and XEM were stolen, but the former was dismissed as additional info transpired that Ripple tokens were taken out of the exchange as a precaution.
This is a follow up from a previous article, and we suggest reading that first if this is the first time you are hearing about the theft.
At the time of writing the