South Korean regulator fined Bithumb 60 million won South Korea's Communications Commission (KCC) called a BTC Korea.com spokesman on the carpet this Tuesday to notify him that their company was being fined "for allegedly leaking personal user data." Writes about this Bitcoin.com with a link to the local portal Yonhap.

South Korean regulator fined Bithumb 60 million won

The South Korean Communications Commission (KCC) summoned a BTC Korea.com representative to the carpet this Tuesday to notify him that their company is being fined "for allegedly leaking personal user data." Writes about this Bitcoin.com with a link to the local portal Yonhap.

The publication clarifies that this is the first case of the application of such measures against the operator of a cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea..

"The South Korean Communications Commission has decided to impose a 60 million won ($ 55,000) fine on BTC Korea.com, the operator of Bithumb, the largest digital currency exchange Bitcoin and Ethereum, for not paying due attention to the issue of protecting user data," writes Yonhap.

The department also recommended punishing the responsible employees of the exchange and demanded that measures be taken to prevent a repetition of such a situation in the future..

According to the Communications Commission, hackers were able to steal Bithumb customer data twice: in April, the data of 31,506 users were stolen, and in July - another 3,434..

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