South Korea launches cross-agency review after tax authority leaks seized crypto wallet seed phrase
South Korea's Deputy Prime Minister Koo Yun-cheol ordered a cross-agency inspection of seized crypto asset management after the National Tax Service exposed a hardware wallet recovery phrase in a press release photo on Thursday. The leak led to the loss of roughly 4 million Pre-Retogeum (PRTG) tokens valued at about 6 billion won, and follows an earlier custody failure involving 22 BTC allegedly misplaced by Seoul's Gangnam police.