132 crypto investors have filed a lawsuit against the Japanese-based crypto coincheck exchange, seeking 228 mln yen (around $ 2 mln) in damages, local news outlet Sankei reported on Tuesday Feb. 27.

Coincheck suffered a major hack in late NEM, worth around $ 530 mln at the time. (19459003)

Despite the company's refund promise, the authors of this article have already filed lawsuits against Coincheck on Feb. 15 at the Tokyo District Court Crypto. Coincheck began permitting yen withdrawals on Feb. 12, which settled on the claims of the exchange.

At the time of the Feb. 15 lawsuits, the traders' lawyer, Hiromu Mochizuki, told Reuters that a new lawsuit to claim damages for the hack may be forthcoming.

Mochizuki's Twitter bio describes him as the "Secretary General of Coincheck Damage Counterparty Lawyer," and he often links to the Twitter Page of the so-called "Coincheck Damaging Countermeasure Defense Team."

According to their Twitter, the Coincheck Damaging Countermeasure Team filed the Feb. 27 lawsuit on behalf of the 132 defendants. A video from TV Asahi posted on Feb. 27 Mochizuki shows blaming the hack on Coincheck's "neglected security measures."

The "Coincheck Damaging Countermeasure Team" [Article Source: http://www.articledashboard.com] On February 27, they reported that the amount of deaths exceeded 490 mln yen (more than $ 4 mln).

Since the January hack, Japanese regulators have introduced conducting inspections of a Japanese crypto exchanges, including Coincheck, verifying their computer safety measures and evaluating the management of customer assets.