Báo cáo 5 sàn giao dịch tiền điện tử hàng đầu Hàn Quốc ghi nhận 57 vụ tấn công và sự cố hệ thống trong 6 năm

The Huoxing Finance report, according to Yonhap News, over the past six years (2020 to April 2026), South Korea’s five major virtual asset exchanges (Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, Gopax) experienced a total of 57 incidents of hacking and system failures, with total compensation amounting to approximately 7 billion KRW (about $5.1 million). By exchange, the number of incidents were: Upbit 26, Bithumb 14, Gopax 8, Coinone 6, and Korbit 3. Among these, Bithumb compensated approximately 2.5 billion KRW (about $1.8 million) due to a BTC misissuance incident in February this year; Upbit compensated approximately 790 million KRW (about $570,000) due to a hacking incident in November 2025, and approximately 3.2 billion KRW (about $2.3 million) due to a system failure on December 3, 2024. Notably, the standards for reporting exchange incidents, as well as the scale and form of compensation, vary significantly. For example, Gopax counts errors occurring when viewing asset lists as system failures, whereas Bithumb only counts situations where all customers encounter difficulties using core services for more than 10 minutes as system failures. Additionally, Bithumb provided some applicants who suffered losses due to system failures with free fee vouchers instead of cash compensation. System failure compensation amounts were: Upbit approximately 3.21 billion KRW, Bithumb approximately 3.2 billion KRW, and Coinone approximately 49 million KRW. Korbit and Gopax provided no compensation.