South Korean National Tax Service Accidentally Publishes Recovery Phrase, Suspected Leak of Tokens Worth 700 Million Yen

2026/02/28 09:33
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South Korean National Tax Service Accidentally Publishes Recovery Phrase, Suspected Leak of Tokens Worth 700 Million Yen

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In an effort to showcase the results of field searches targeting 124 habitual high-value delinquents, the South Korean National Tax Service distributed press materials that inadvertently included the unredacted 'mnemonic' (recovery phrase) of a seized cryptocurrency wallet, as revealed by Hansung University's Blockchain Research Institute on the 27th. A mnemonic is a combination of 12 to 24 English words required to restore a cryptocurrency wallet on another device, analogous to...

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