Korean Police Launch Pre-Filing Investigation into Hacking Incidents at Securities Firms and Crypto Asset Exchanges

According to a TechFlow report on October 28, citing Yonhap News Agency, the National Investigation Headquarters of the Korean National Police Agency launched a pre-filing investigation (internal investigation) into hacking incidents at securities firms and crypto asset exchanges on the morning of October 28, with the case assigned to the team that previously handled the serial hacking cases in the financial industry. Recently, the personal and credit information of 38,490 customers at Daishin Securities was leaked; Bithumb has confirmed a leak of employee information and is still checking whether member information was involved; information related to some business systems at Mirae Asset was leaked, but no leakage of personal credit information has been found so far. Previously, 16 financial institutions, including KB Kookmin Bank, were also targeted by hackers, and approximately 100,000 records of personal information such as ID numbers, account numbers, and addresses were leaked. Police said they would compare the modus operandi of the old and new cases to determine whether they are connected, and did not rule out that the same attacker was responsible.

Source: TechFlow