日本遭窃加密货币交易所许诺偿还客户资金
日本加密货币交易所Coincheck表示，在成为世界最大盗窃案之一的受害者后，它将偿还客户的资金。
The company said its systems were penetrated by a hacker in the early hours of Friday morning. The intruder made off with 523m units of the cryptocurrency XEM belonging to 260,000 customers.
该公司表示，黑客在上周五凌晨侵入其系统，偷走了属于26万客户的5.23亿个单位的加密货币XEM。
The $500m hack shows the vast sums being made and lost in the cryptocurrency boom, the vulnerability of decentralised money to theft and the wild west criminality that is possible in the new world of blockchain.
这次规模达5亿美元的黑客攻击突显了在加密货币繁荣中被制造和丢失的货币数额之巨、去中心化货币面对盗窃行为的脆弱性，以及区块链新世界中可能出现的“狂野西部式”猖獗犯罪活动。
“I deeply apologise to the customers we have troubled,” said Yusuke Otsuka, chief operating officer of Coincheck, as the young founders of Japan’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange struggled through a tense press conference.
Coincheck的首席运营官Yusuke Otsuka在记者会上表示：“我对我们给客户造成的麻烦深表歉意。”这家日本第二大加密货币交易所的年轻创始人们艰难地举行了一场紧张的记者会。
The scale of the theft is comparable to the £292m ($414m) City bonds robbery in 1990, the $500m Gardner art heist the same year or the approximately $500m bitcoin hack that led to the 2014 collapse of cryptocurrency exchange Mt Gox.
这宗失窃案的规模可与1990年伦敦金融城2.92亿英镑(合4.14亿美元)债券抢劫案、同年的伊莎贝拉嘉纳艺术博物馆(Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum) 5亿美元艺术品盗窃案，或者导致2014年加密货币交易所Mt Gox倒闭的黑客盗取约5亿美元比特币一案相提并论。
In a website announcement on Sunday, Coincheck said it would repay holders from company funds at a rate of ¥88.5 per XEM, indicating it would try to stay in business. The valuation is less than the ¥104 price the day before the hack or XEM’s current trading price of ¥112.
Coincheck周日在网站发布公告称，它将按每个XEM兑换88.5日元的比价，用公司资金偿还给客户，并表示它将努力维持经营。这一估价低于黑客入侵前一天每个XEM兑换104日元，或目前每个XEM兑换112日元的价格。
Coincheck said it was still deciding when and how to repay. The net worth of Coincheck, and hence its ability to cover the debt, is unclear. The exchange’s future may depend on whether other customers demand to withdraw their funds.
Coincheck表示，它仍未确定何时以及以何种方式偿还客户。目前还不清楚Coincheck的净值、以及由此而来的偿债能力有多大。这家交易所的未来也许取决于其他客户是否要求提款。
