Bithumb is South Korea's largest cryptocurrency telephone substitution amongst 20% of global ether trades, together with roughly 10% of the global bitcoin merchandise is exchanged for South Korea's currency, the Won.
Bithumb is currently the fourth largest Bitcoin telephone substitution together with the biggest Ethereum exchange inwards the world.
Last week, a cyber assault on the cryptocurrency telephone substitution giant resulted inwards a seat out of user accounts beingness compromised, together with billions of South Korean Won were stolen from customers accounts.
Around 10 Million Won worth of bitcoins were allegedly stolen from a unmarried victim's account, according to the Kyunghyang Shinmun, a major local newspaper.
H5N1 survey of users who lost cryptocurrencies inwards the cyber assault reveals "it is estimated that hundreds of millions of won [worth of cryptocurrencies] convey been withdrawn from accounts of i hundred investors. One fellow member claims to convey had 1.2 billion won stolen."
Besides digital currencies, hackers were succeeded inwards stealing the personal information of 31,800 Bithumb website users, including their names, electronic mail addresses, together with mobile telephone numbers, the South Korean government-funded Yonhap News reported.
However, Bithumb claims that this seat out represents around 3% of its customers.
The telephone substitution besides told Yonhap that it contacted South Korea's cybercrime watchdog on June 30, Fri afterward it learned of the hack on June 29.
Bithumb believes that i of its employee's domicile reckoner was hacked inwards the assault together with non its entire network together with no passwords were compromised, together with thence it is impossible for hackers to arrive at straight access to user accounts.
The digital currency telephone substitution says that the loss of funds is the outcome of using "disposable passwords" inwards lodge to bear out digital transactions online.
"The employee PC, non the caput role server, was hacked. Personal information such every bit mobile telephone together with electronic mail address of some users were leaked," Bithumb told the newspaper. "However, some customers were constitute to convey been stolen from because of the disposable password used inwards electronic fiscal transactions."
While to a greater extent than than 100 Bithumb customers convey already filed a electrical load amongst the National Police Agency's cybercrime study centre regarding the hack, South Korean officials are at in i lawsuit investigating the incident.
