According to news from South Korea's financial department and related industries on the 28th, the Financial Supervisory Service discovered that the virtual currency exchange “Bithumb”, Future Asset Global Investment, and Daxin Securities were attacked by hackers. Daxin Securities issued a press release on the morning of the same day, stating that personal and credit information of 384,900 customers had been leaked. Bithumb discovered the day before that the company's internal mobile office system had been abnormally accessed by unauthorized external personnel, causing personal information to be leaked. Bithumb is analyzing the specific scope of disclosure of member information, etc. The Financial Supervisory Authority has dispatched an on-site investigation team to Daxin Securities to learn more about the situation. Bithumb, Future Asset Global Investment, and Daxin Securities were also discovered to have been attacked by hackers following a system intrusion incident at Future Asset Life Insurance Company on the 26th of this month causing customer information to be leaked. So far, with the exception of credit card companies, almost all major financial industries in South Korea have confirmed that they have been attacked by hackers.

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