🇰🇷LATEST: Bithumb confirms a internal data leak as cyber intrusions hit THREE South Korean financial firms. South Korea’s second-largest crypto exchange detected unauthorized access to its internal mobile groupware system on October 27. Whether customer information was exposed remains under investigation, according to Yonhap. Daishin Securities separately confirmed that personal and credit information belonging to 38,490 customers was leaked. Mirae Asset Global Investments also reported a hacking incident. The Financial Supervisory Service is investigating. No fund theft has been reported, and a connection between the incidents has not been established. @headlines

⚠️ DATA BREACH ALERT: Coinbase customer contact information exposed in security incident at analytics provider Amplitude. Hackers have allegedly accessed contact information belonging to more than 70,000 Coinbase users. Coinbase confirms there is no evidence of unauthorised access to its own systems but its analytics vendor Amplitude experienced a security incident which impacted customer contact data. While all customer funds remain unaffected, Coinbase is notifying impacted customers and regulatory agencies accordingly. @headlines

🇯🇵 JUST IN: BlackRock officially signs on to explore linking tokenized funds with a yen stablecoin. The $15.5 TRILLION asset manager is working with SBI and Startale, the companies behind JPYSC, a stablecoin tied to the Japanese yen. They want to see if tokenized money market funds can plug into JPYSC. SBI's chairman says the shift to onchain finance "is becoming an unavoidable global trend." @headlines