An 18-year-old boy was referred to prosecutors Thursday over stealing about 15 million yen worth of cryptocurrency last year by hacking a digital currency storage website, police said. It is the first case in Japan in which criminal charges have been pursued against a hacker over cryptocurrency losses, the police said. The boy from the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, allegedly hacked Monappy, one of the websites where users can keep the virtual currency monacoin, and stole the amount between Aug 14 and Sept 1 last year. He used software called Tor that makes it ... (full story)