South Korea’s Financial Services Commission launched on-site inspections after Bithumb reported abnormal external access that exposed employee information. The affected data belonged to workers at Bithumb, its subsidiaries and partner companies, while the exchange continues checking whether customer data was exposed. The FSC said Bithumb had not confirmed a leak of information usable for fraudulent payments or crypto transfers, including wallet addresses. Investigators are seeking the cause of the incident, which involved a staff-support system rather than the exchange’s core trading infrastructure. The FSC also plans to strengthen security standards for crypto firms and other sectors outside the Electronic Financial Transactions Act, but has not specified the measures or implementation timeline.
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