The South Korean Ministry of Science and ICT reported yesterday that only seven cryptocurrency exchanges including Upbit, Bithumb, Gopax, Korbit, Coinone, Hanbitco, and Huobi Korea have passed the security inspection checklist.
A survey was conducted by the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Korea Internet & Security Agency and the Ministry of Economy and Finance, during the period of September to December of 2018 to evaluate the security performance of cryptocurrency exchanges in the country.
The inspection covered the following areas: administrative security, operational environment security, network and account security, database & backup security, and wallet security.
Out of 21 cryptocurrency exchanges that were inspected earlier last year for security compliance, only seven passed the improvement recommendation, leaving the remaining 14 labeled as “vulnerable” to one or more of the 85 security checkpoints. “The 14 exchanges are vulnerable to hacking attacks at all times because of poor security,” the ministry said. Moreover, 17 new exchanges that were inspected for the first time, did not meet the cutoff either. This brings the total of exchanges scrutinized to 38.
South Korea is home to over 100 cryptocurrency exchanges and due to the number of security breaches that have led to the loss of millions of dollars of user assets on exchanges, the Korean government decided to carry out a survey to determine the fitness level of these exchanges.
It would seem the agency expects more of this hacks to occur this year, and are prepared to mitigate the severity of the damage if not completely averted through these security inspections. Director of information security policy at the Ministry of Information and Communication Oh Yong-soo said: “This year, cyber attacks targeting encrypted money are expected to continue”. Yet, most of the inspected exchanges “are still vulnerable”, and there a lot more exchanges are out there whose security status is currently unknown.
The South Korean nation has been pulling resources to ensure the standardization of the industry, a part of that effort includes setting up a representative committee to oversee legislation for the industry and suggest possible adaptive measures to national laws. Though leaning on the side of caution, so far, the nation appears to be a friendlier territory for the industry than some other Asian countries.
Last month in Japan, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) reported having received 190 cryptocurrency license applications from exchanges as 2019 approached. Regulation and standardization seem to be the way forward in the industry.
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