Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck, is set to use its own money to pay back victims of a hack of its exchange.
The Tokyo-based exchange said in a statement it would reimburse the 260,000 customers affected by the $400 million heist of digital currency NEM, "at a rate of 88.549 yen (81 US cents) for each coin," Bloomberg News reported.
The company said Friday that more than 500 million NEM coins, the seventh largest cryptocurrency, vanished after being "illicitly" transferred off the exchange. Coincheck is still looking into exactly what happened.
The heist awakened memories of the notorious hack of Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Mt Gox in 2014, which resulted in more than 850,000 bitcoin being stolen from the now defunct exchange.
As such, most major digital currencies were in the red for much of Friday's trading session. It appears investors' worries have since been mollified. Most digital currencies were trading up against the US dollar during Saturday trading, according to CoinMarketCap.
"Since there is no FDIC or SIPC insurance for crypto the fact that they are 'trying' to make account holder's whole is a good sign," John Spallanzani of Miller Value Partners told Business Insider.
Notably, NEM was a tear. The price of the cryptocurrency was up more than 30% over the last twenty-four hours, trading at $1.11 a coin at last check. Check out the chart:
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