Hacking Incidents at Daishin Securities, Mirae Asset Global Investments and Bithumb; FSS Assessing the Situation

[Financial News] Hacking incidents have also occurred at cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb, as well as at Daishin Securities and Mirae Asset Global Investments, prompting financial authorities to assess the situation.
According to financial authorities and others on the 28th, the Financial Supervisory Service learned that day of hacking incidents at Daishin Securities and Mirae Asset Global Investments in the financial investment sector and at Bithumb in the virtual asset sector. The FSS is assessing the status of these breaches, including by dispatching an on-site inspection team to Daishin Securities.
Daishin Securities said that the personal and credit information of 38,490 customers had been leaked. Mirae Asset Global Investments said that information used in some of its business systems had been leaked, but that no general customer information or financial losses were involved.
Bithumb confirmed the previous day that personal information had been leaked following abnormal access to its internal mobile groupware system by an unauthorized external party.
It has reported the incident to the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) and the Personal Information Protection Commission, and is currently analyzing the precise scope of the leak, including the possibility that member information was involved.
The Digital Asset eXchange Alliance (DAXA) said, “We are looking into the details and have been focusing on security-related matters in cooperation with the authorities for some time.”
Lee Chan-jin, Governor of the Financial Supervisory Service, stressed the need for the financial sector to strengthen information technology (IT) security during his opening remarks at a regular meeting with the chairs of the boards of eight bank holding companies, saying, “I understand that hacking incidents occurred across major financial investment firms the previous day.”
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