THELOGICALINDIAN - Ten Japanese cryptocurrency exchanges accept active an acceding with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to coact to anticipate cyber abomination Along with growing bitcoin acceptance in Japan is the cardinal of cybercrime cases including crooked admission to online accounts and money laundering
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10 Exchanges Collaborate
Ten of Japan’s arch cryptocurrency exchanges active an “agreement on countermeasures adjoin cybercrime” with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on Wednesday. This move is “in acknowledgment to the accretion cardinal of crimes targeting agenda currencies online such as bitcoin,” Sankei Shimbun described.
The exchanges are SBI Virtual Currencies, Bitflyer, Bitpoint Japan, GMO Coin, Coincheck, Bit Trade, Quoine, Bitbank, Btc Box, and Money Partners. All of the companies accept been accountant by the Japanese Financial Services Authority (FSA) to accurately accomplish as agenda bill exchanges, except one – Coincheck. Japan’s second-largest bitcoin barter by aggregate is still under review by the agency.
In adjustment to anticipate cyber crime, the exchanges accede to abet with anniversary added and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Specifically, they accede to “mutual cooperation, cybercrime reporting notification, bent analysis cooperation, advice sharing, [and] measures to anticipate boundless damage,” App Times detailed.
Rising Cybercrime Cases
The Director of Security Bureau of the National Police Agency (NPA) commented, “Although the advance of basic bill is remarkable, it is a faculty of crisis back it turns into a crime; this acceding is encouraging.” Digital bill exchanges face abounding cybersecurity challenges such as crooked access, actionable transactions, and money laundering.
Last month, the National Police Agency appear 170 money bed-making cases in Japan involving cryptocurrency in the six months catastrophe in October, Japan Times reported. “We appetite to booty countermeasures by accommodating with accordant ministries and agencies as able-bodied as business operators,” an NPA official emphasized.
A November Cabinet Office analysis of 3,000 bodies in Japan age-old 18 and over shows “a growing cardinal of bodies are afraid about the furnishings of cyber-terrorism, crooked admission to online accounts and added high-tech crimes,” the account aperture detailed.
Bitflyer CEO Yuzo Kano commented:
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