Bithumb staff groupware breach
Add to my breach checkMade public
What leaked7
Hard to replace
- ID card image
- Driver's licence number
- Bank account number
- Mobile number
- Email address
Permanent
- Resident registration number
- Full name
- ID card imageitems vary by customer · 844 customers; 715 staff also affected
- Resident registration numberitems vary by customer · 844 customers; 715 staff also affected
- Driver's licence numberitems vary by customer · 844 customers; 715 staff also affected
- Bank account numberitems vary by customer · 844 customers; 715 staff also affected
- Mobile numberitems vary by customer · 844 customers; 715 staff also affected
- Email addressitems vary by customer · 844 customers; 715 staff also affected
- Full nameitems vary by customer · 844 customers; 715 staff also affected
To-dos8 · about 1 h in all
- Block new loans and cards in your nameStops: loans or cards in your name · Limits harm from: scam calls (opens in a new tab)
- Block non-face-to-face account opening in your nameStops: bank account in your name · Limits harm from: scam calls (opens in a new tab)
- Register as an exposed person with the FSSLimits harm from: scam calls, loans or cards in your name, bank account in your name (opens in a new tab)
- Know the scam pattern: calls and texts that cite these leaked detailsLimits harm from: scam calls, phishing messages
- Check your credit records and block status on credit4uHelps you notice: loans or cards in your name (opens in a new tab)
3 more
- Block new mobile lines in your name with MsaferStops: phone line in your name (opens in a new tab)
- Report the lost resident ID card on Gov24Limits harm from: bank account in your name, phone line in your name (opens in a new tab)
- Check every phone line in your name on MsaferHelps you notice: phone line in your name (opens in a new tab)
What happened next12 events
- UndetectedNone on record
- Response 9 eventsNo individual notice on record · show events
- Remedy 1 eventOngoing · Back to latest
- Penalty 2 eventsOngoing · show events
- DisputesNone on record
Remedy: 1 event
Back to latest- Said it would provide relief and compensation under the law where damage from the leak is confirmed
- Company
- Bithumb
- Company detected it
- Made public
- Notice
- Leak confirmed
How the facts developed
- Bithumb's statement (reported by the press on October 29, 2026): names, mobile numbers, email addresses, resident registration numbers, driver's licence numbers, account numbers and ID card copies of 844 customers leaked, with different items for each customer
- FSC release: Bithumb reported signs that data of employees of Bithumb, its subsidiaries and partner firms leaked after abnormal outside access to a system that supports staff work; whether user data leaked is still being checked, and no leak of wallet addresses or other data usable for unauthorised payments or crypto transfers has been found so far
Sources
- 금융위원회·금융감독원 regulator (opens in a new tab)checked October 28, 2026
- 데일리시큐 press (opens in a new tab)checked October 28, 2026
- 보안뉴스 press (opens in a new tab)checked October 28, 2026
- 뉴스핌 press (opens in a new tab)checked October 30, 2026