Luke Parker reports: The largest bitcoin and ether exchange in South Korea by volume, Bithumb, was recently hacked. Monetary losses from compromised accounts have started to surface, and are quickly reaching into the billions of won. […] Hackers succeeded in grabbing the personal information of 31,800 Bithumb website users, including their names, mobile phone numbers…
Category: Financial Sector
KR: Financial firms on guard for cyberattack threats
Yonhap News Agency reports: Banks and other financial institutions in South Korea have been on guard over threats of cyberattacks by alleged financial blackmailers, according to the banks and financial institutions on Tuesday. No damage has been reported so far, but about 20 banks, brokerages and the Korea Exchange received threats by hacking groups about…
JP: Bank of Saga client data allegedly stolen, handed to suspected criminals
Kyodo News reports: The personal information of 169 customers who each have over ¥100 million deposited in the Bank of Saga was likely stolen by a former employee and handed to a group of suspected criminals, bank officials said Monday. The former employee, Atsushi Yoshida, 42, is on trial over a separate theft but was…
Oops. Tata dev accidentally leaked banks’ code on public GitHub repo
Iain Thomson reports: Staff at Indian outsourcing biz Tata Consultancy Service uploaded a huge trove of financial institutions’ source code and internal documents to a public GitHub repository, an IT expert has claimed. Jason Coulls, CTO of food safety testing company Tellspec and a former banking software developer, said he stumbled upon the collection of…
HSBC reveals customer information leak
Raymond Hainey reports: HSBC Bermuda yesterday apologised after it e-mailed personal information on customers to other account holders. The e-mails contained names, e-mail addresses, countries of residence, the name of the customers’ relationship manager and HSBC customer identification numbers. Now the bank has launched an investigation to find out how the personal details — attached…
Old Mutual tightens security after customers’ data breach
Thandisizwe Mgudlwa reports: Old Mutual, South Africa’s prominent financial services company, has notified its customers of a data breach. This follows the company’s detection of an unauthorised entry to one of its systems. And this led to some personal customer information being accessed. Old Mutual has said that personal information of a relatively small group…