South Korea
Digital Asset
Financial Authorities Conduct On-Site Inspection of Bithumb Breach, Say 'Full Compensation if Damage Is Confirmed'
- FSC held an emergency meeting with FSS, FSI, DAXA (Digital Asset eXchange Alliance), and Bithumb, and began an on-site inspection of the breach.
- Bithumb confirmed signs that employee data from the company, subsidiaries, and partners was leaked via abnormal external access; whether user data was leaked is still being verified.
- The breached system was an internal business-support system, not the core digital asset trading infrastructure, and wallet addresses were reportedly not compromised; authorities pledged full compensation if damage is confirmed.