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Korea Financial Firms Hit By More Hacks as Asia Breaches Grow

Bloomberg Markets28 October 2026, 04:40 UTCSouth Korea

South Korea’s financial industry was hit by a second wave of cyberattacks in about a month as a wave of breaches across Asia heightens concerns that artificial intelligence is making large-scale hacking easier.

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