South Korea's top prosecutor's office issues crypto seizure manual

South Korea's Supreme Prosecutors' Office has established and distributed a manual for managing seized cryptocurrencies to all prosecutor's offices nationwide, JoongAng Ilbo reported exclusively. The move is intended to prevent a repeat of an incident at the Gwangju District Prosecutors' Office, where 320 BTC were stolen. According to the manual, officials must use designated official websites to verify wallet holdings, such as blockchain.com for Bitcoin and Etherscan for Ethereum. It also mandates using only public keys to check balances and requires that PINs and mnemonic codes be managed separately. The Gwangju office lost the funds in August of last year after officials accessed a phishing site during an inspection of seized assets and entered a wallet address and mnemonic code. The stolen Bitcoin was fully recovered on Feb. 20.