Bithumb Confirms Breach as Hackers Hit 3 South Korean Financial Firms

Bithumb, South Korea’s second-largest crypto exchange, has confirmed that an outside party broke into its internal mobile groupware system and leaked personal data, while two other Korean financial firms reported intrusions as well. According to Yonhap News Agency, Bithumb confirmed that an unauthorized external party accessed its internal mobile groupware system , resulting in a personal data leak. Groupware is the internal collaboration software companies use for messaging, email, scheduling and document approvals, which means it often holds staff details, internal communications and sometimes customer records. The exchange discovered the incident on Oct.