According to reports published yesterday, the South Korean government would be conducting investigations into an alleged cyberattack to the Bithumb exchange house , the main entity of its kind in the country.
Bithumb maintains bitcoin exchanges for a value that last year reached 2 trillion won . He is currently among the top five bitcoin traders in the world . On its platform, about 13,000 bitcoins per day are exchanged, approximately 10% worldwide. Similarly, it is the first market in the world to exchange between Korean won and ethers, the cryptoactive platform Ethereum , holding 44% of exchanges.
The reports indicate that Security Agency and the Internet in the country have received a complaint on Friday by Bithumb, which argued that had eloped information from users through domestic personal computer of one of his employees, said an official Whose identity he chose to remain anonymous. In addition, another institution participating in this investigation is the Korea Communications Commission.
The exchange house would have declared that the information of 30,000 of its users has been compromised , being about 3% of the total users; Although the house did confirm that the passwords of its users are not in the power of the unknown attacker. Even so, it is pointed out that some of the users have filed claims for monetary losses, which, they clarify, will be compensated.
According to a published letter , Bithumb detected that the attacker infiltrated a cell phone or personal computer of one of the employees through techniques such as fraudulent e-mail and phishing , clarifying that it is a situation that is far from the internal system of Bithumb, of their servers and portfolios of criptomonedas , which are safe. However, users are encouraged to change their phone numbers or emails since it is suspected that most of the leaked information is about such sensitive data.
In fact, about 100 users have already filed complaints and complaints against Bithumb before the Department of Cybernetics of the National Police, some pointing out that they have already usurped identities and extracted funds through telephone calls in which hackers pretend to be Bithumb support staff, apparently.