North korea is hacking soaring bitcoin exchanges say researchers

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Most Popular Find out if you're a winner or a loser in this year's budget As it happened: Work out how much you will save in the first year. Recent attacks on other currency exchanges, Bithumb and Coinis, also show the digital fingerprints of hackers from North Korea, according to South Korean researchers.

What should we do? Connect with ABC News. South Korean investigators say spearphishing attacks targeting individuals in South Korea were designed to look as if they were from the country's tax agency or other government bodies, and aimed to steal customers' personal information. Tax cuts are coming, according to the Government. Internet security experts blame North Korean cybercrime group Lazarus for an attack this week on South Korean currency exchange Youbit, which lost 17 per cent of its currency holdings and has been forced into bankruptcy.

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