Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2023-09-12 00:00:00
Affected organization: CoinEX
Affected country: Hong Kong
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: NGB 3rd Technical Surveillance Bureau
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of)
Description: Global cryptocurrency exchange CoinEX announces that someone hacked its hot wallets and stole large amounts of digital assets that were used to support the platform's operations. The loss is estimated in $53 million worth and the fingers are pointed to the North Korean Lazarus.