[Financial News] The National Tax Service (NTS) stated on the 1st, “We once again extend our sincere apologies to the public for the concern caused by the recent virtual asset leak incident.”
On this day, the NTS explained, “An incident occurred on February 26 during a briefing on the results of a field search of a delinquent taxpayer, where the virtual asset information of the taxpayer was leaked.”
The NTS added, “This incident occurred when we inadvertently provided the original photo to the media without realizing it contained sensitive virtual asset information, in an attempt to deliver more vivid information to the public. There are no excuses for this, and it is entirely the fault of the NTS.”
Furthermore, the NTS stated, “As soon as we confirmed that coins were leaked from the taxpayer’s wallet, we immediately tracked the leak route using our virtual asset tracking program and requested an investigation from the National Police Agency to retrieve the leaked virtual assets.”
The NTS also mentioned, “Taking this incident as a catalyst, we will conduct an external diagnosis of our overall security system and strengthen internal controls such as pre-review to prevent the leakage of sensitive information during public disclosures. We will thoroughly revamp the manual for the entire process of seizure, storage, and sale of virtual assets and enhance job and security training for staff to promptly implement comprehensive measures to prevent recurrence.”