The United Nations Security Council reported in March this year a report suggesting that "North Korean hackers are involved" over a coin check case in which about 58 billion yen of crypto assets (virtual currency) was stolen by hacking from an exchange Published. However, the statement about coin check disappeared from the report published this month. Experts pointed out that the previous report was insufficiently verified. He criticizes, “There should be no such omissions”.
The UN Security Council's expert panel on North Korean sanctions is a new report released on the 5th of this month. North Korea launched cyber attacks on financial institutions and cryptocurrency exchanges in various countries, resulting in $ 2 billion (about 210 billion yen). The trial calculation that it was illegally acquired considerable money was put together.
Coincheck (Tokyo) was hacked in January last year. The basis for the “North Korean theory” of the case in the previous report was a report quote compiled by a Russian security company. However, when I read the report, there was no basis for a North Korean theory. The Asahi Shimbun asked the company about the grounds for information in May this year, and responded that there was only indirect evidence suggesting the possibility that North Korean hackers were involved.
In the new report, where the description of “North Korea” disappeared, the names of the four exchanges in Korea that were mentioned in the previous report were listed as the list of exchanges that were attacked by cyber attacks. New exchanges in Slovenia, India, and Bangladesh have been added, and sources of information are said to have come from member countries.
Mr. Katsuhisa Furukawa, a former expert panel member, said, “It seems that no reasonable grounds for suspicion of North Korea's involvement were found as a result of reviewing information from member countries.” In addition, “When written in a UN report, the information is accepted by the world as a“ facts ”that the UN has verified. In the previous report, when the panel cited a report from a Russian company, "There should be no such omissions in nature." (Editorial committee member Tatsuya Sudo)
