Police arrest first suspect in NTS crypto leak, track second

Police have arrested the first individual who stole cryptocurrency from South Korea's National Tax Service (NTS) and are now tracking a second suspect, Yonhap News reported. A police agency official said at a press briefing today that the first suspect submitted a confession via the cybercrime reporting system on Feb. 28. The individual was arrested on March 1 based on that confession, and authorities are now pursuing the second suspect. The leak occurred after the NTS inadvertently exposed a mnemonic code, which acts as a master key, in a press release on Feb. 26. The release detailed the seizure of four cold wallet USBs containing assets from a delinquent taxpayer.