Regulation & supervision
Korea FSC tightens cyber rules for banks and VASPs
APACSource: Financial Services Commission
- The Financial Services Commission said on 5 November 2026 that it held a meeting with ministries, organisations and financial industry groups on strengthening the financial sector's cyber defence framework against AI-driven hacking threats.
- Between 30 September and 3 November 2026, authorities recorded 40 hacking incidents at 37 financial companies, including four banks and three virtual asset service providers, with about 473,000 personal-information breach cases and about KRW1 billion in fund losses reported at smaller virtual asset, electronic financial services and online P2P lending firms, mostly from management accounts and with no customer fund losses found yet.
- Authorities will prepare November guidelines requiring virtual asset service providers to report hacking attacks immediately to the financial authorities, inspect about 580 entities' external contact points by end-November, and plan a first-quarter 2027 digital finance safety bill that would require VASPs to maintain cybersecurity systems currently mandated under the Electronic Financial Transactions Act.
Why it matters
Banks and VASPs supervised in Korea face accelerated cybersecurity inspections, a planned VASP incident-reporting duty to financial authorities, and a forthcoming digital finance safety bill that would extend Electronic Financial Transactions Act-level cyber controls to virtual asset service providers.
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More detail
Who is affected
Korean financial companies including banks and virtual asset service providers, and related electronic financial and P2P lenders subject to the inspections and forthcoming guidelines.
Key dates
- FSC held the cyber-defence meeting
What remains uncertain
- The release does not name the three VASPs affected or give a calendar day within November for the new VASP reporting guidelines.
- End-of-November and first-quarter 2027 timings are stated without exact calendar dates.
Key facts
- Event
- Supervisory decision
- Jurisdiction
- APAC
- Source
- Financial Services Commission (Korea)
- Source tier
- Tier 1 · Regulator / central bank
In the database
Institutions
How we verified this
The source says
“Under the current regulatory framework, certain types of business entities such as virtual asset service providers are not obligated to immediately report data breaches or hacking attacks to the financial authorities but are only required to report to the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA).”
“Some smaller sized companies in the virtual asset, electronic financial services, and online P2P lending sectors reported loss of funds amounting to a total of about KRW1 billion so far.”
“Since virtual asset service providers are closely linked to all financial sectors and their reporting is deemed to be crucial for effective investigation, quick dissemination of information, and consumer protection, authorities will seek to prepare guidelines in November to require virtual asset service providers to immediately report to the financial authorities if there are hacking attacks.”
“Virtual asset service providers and insurance general agencies that tend to manage significant scales of customer information and are directly exposed to potential loss of customer funds in hacking attacks will be required to maintain a level of cybersecurity system currently mandated under the Electronic Financial Transactions Act.”
Verbatim from Financial Services Commission (Korea), matched word for word against the live page on 5 November 2026.
Sources
- PrimaryFinancial Services Commission (Korea) ↗2026-11-05T1Regulator
Evidence
- Confidence
- High Primary source (regulator / official record); quote string-matched against the live page.
- Quote verified
- 2026-11-05 12:03 UTC
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- Primary Financial Services Commission (Korea) ↗
Change log (1)
- 2026-11-05 Published
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