Not again! I thought exchanges in Japan would be relatively safer, because they have to be registered and have some basic safety mechanisms in place. But I guess in the crypto world, you cannot be absolutely safe.
It will be interesting to see if the investigators pin blame on somebody.
No matter how intense the regulations overseeing exchange security are, they aren't able to detect bugs and whatnot that may lead to hackers stealing significant numbers of coins. The only thing these regulations in reality do is make it less likely for inside jobs to occur, but as we see frequently, hackers are just as much of a threat. You can't weapon yourself against that as exchange.
The only "good" thing about these thefts is that it decreases people's confidence in centralized exchanges, and motivates them to look into decenteralized exchanges. People really need to see centralized exchanges mess up in order to realize how bad they are and that their funds aren't safe over there.
I know we can't banish centralized entirely, but we can make people more aware of their importance. The more people start using decentralized exchanges, the faster they'll develop because more usage means more incentive to boost development of these exchanges.