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Shinhan Bank lost contact, loan and income data on about 25,000 customers to attackers suspected of using AI tools. Other lenders now need to learn whether the way in was a platform weakness they share.
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President Lee Jae-myung ordered a full probe of hacks that exposed data at four Korean banks, including about 25,000 Shinhan Bank customers. The response runs through every financial industry association before the probe has shown whether the banks share a weak point.
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South Korea's five big crypto exchanges traded about 20.5 trillion won in the week to Oct. 2, down 19.56% from the week before. At about 2.9 trillion won a day, the week ran at the first-half average regulators reported on Oct. 1, so trading is back at the year's pace after one busier week.
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Korea's Financial Services Commission ordered a sector-wide security review after suspected AI-agent hackers hit the country's five largest banks. The three biggest leaks ran through employee, sales and broker tools, so the review's cost lands on systems customers never see.
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South Korea's Financial Services Commission will block outside access to staff and loan-broker web pages by default after leaks at six firms. Every page a firm keeps reachable now has to be justified as indispensable to services or work.
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Shinhan Bank exposed data on about 25,000 customers through a loan-broker inquiry platform kept apart from its core banking systems. Yonhap reports AI may have automated the credential stuffing, so the side systems that touch customer data are where lenders' security spending now gets tested.
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South Korea's Financial Services Commission ordered banks and card firms to check every externally reachable IT system after data leaks at four banks. The regulator will collect the returns and use them to build new cybersecurity measures for the financial sector.
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South Korea's Financial Services Commission proposed rules on October 1 letting stocks, bonds and funds trade as tokens from February 4, 2027. Comments close November 11, while bills from both main parties would push the January 1 crypto income tax back as far as 2030.
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Korea's licensed crypto exchanges lost 78% of operating income and a third of their combined market capitalization in H1 2026, a regulator survey shows. Bitcoin fell by the same third over the half, so the case for an exodus to offshore leverage has to rest on won deposits and turnover, figures that fit a move into Korean stocks just as well.
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GC Biopharma's second-quarter operating profit fell 93.7% to 1.7 billion won as it readies a 140 billion won production line at its Ochang plant. Even with the Curevo sale cash, it holds less than the 521.8 billion won it owes within a year, so the build depends on lenders renewing debt.
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Samsung Life and Hanwha Life cut savings crediting rates to 2.28% and 2.18%, under a 2.40% deposit rate, while treasury yields rose about 1.4 points. New savings policies are priced off a regulatory average that those cuts pull down, so premiums are set to rise next year.
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South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service plans to publish interim inspection findings only where consumer harm is feared or a major incident could follow. For inspected firms, most publicity would then come at the sanction stage.
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ST Pharm signed three oligonucleotide contracts worth $182 million this year, each above $50 million, a size it did not reach once last year. Its earnings case now rests on commercial reorders, with the largest contract tied by industry estimates to a single Ionis drug, Tryngolza.
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Financial authorities are negotiating a formal bar on margin trading by investors under 19, after KB, Samsung and Shinhan each stopped it on their own schedules. Credit loans to buy shares rose 713 billion won in the week investor deposits fell 10.2 trillion.
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The Korea Student Aid Foundation took 1,078 collection actions from January through July, while its own in-house restructurings ran at 34% of last year's count. It sits outside the regulator driving the debt relief push.
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Police opened 3,506 investigations into chatroom stock-tip fraud in the first half of 2026, 4.1% more than a year earlier. Reported losses rose 19.8% to about $250 million. The difference shows up in the average case.
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Unpaid principal at Korea's ten largest brokerages rose 5.1 times to 37.79575 billion won over seven months, a sum equal to less than a tenth of a percent of the record 38.6328 trillion won margin book behind it.
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South Korea's Prosecution Service is dissolved in under a month, and the agency taking over serious financial crime is at least three weeks from opening, so a complaint filed on the 8th has nobody able to trace accounts.
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An FSS official says emails went out repeatedly to debtors whose loans NICE was collecting for other financial companies. The ceiling under review allows seven contacts in seven days for each debt.
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The Financial Services Commission will let issuers bundle same-type assets into one fractional certificate and extend tokenization to stocks, bonds and funds. Bonds and funds start as institutional private placements, with retail net buying capped at 100 million won per venue.
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