Hacking attempts on major South Korean crypto exchanges hit record 1.15M

Hacking attempts targeting South Korea's four major cryptocurrency exchanges have surged to a record 1.15 million so far this year, Financial News reported. According to data from South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service, obtained by the office of Democratic Party lawmaker Kang Jun-hyeon, the exchanges—Upbit, Bithumb, Korbit, and Gopax—faced 1,154,594 attacks through November. This figure is more than double the 576,318 attempts recorded in all of 2024. For comparison, the exchanges saw 1,128,079 attempts in 2023 and 268,419 in 2022.