Bithumb Suffers Personal Info Leak Due to System Breach... Analyzing Scope of Leak

Cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has experienced a personal information leak following an external hacking attack targeting its internal mobile system.

According to the cryptocurrency industry and other sources on October 28, Bithumb detected the day before that personal information had been leaked due to abnormal access by an unauthorized external party to its internal mobile groupware system.

The hacking incident is estimated to have occurred the previous day, and Bithumb reported the security breach to the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) and the Personal Information Protection Commission on the same day it was discovered.

Bithumb is reportedly analyzing the exact scope of the leak without ruling out the possibility that member information was included.

Amid a series of recent hacking incidents in the financial sector, security breaches have also previously occurred in the cryptocurrency industry at Streami, the operator of Gopax, and coin-market exchange Probit.

Gopax recently detected signs of abnormal access to some customer accounts this month and is investigating the exact scope of the damage.

It is reported that there has been no asset damage at Gopax so far.

It is also known that the specific scope of damage and whether personal information was leaked have not yet been clearly confirmed for Probit.
 
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