GOPAX halts services after a hacking threat; report says no theft was detected

GOPAX suspended trading, deposits and ordinary withdrawals on 6 November while moving assets into offline storage, Cointelegraph reported. A representative told Korean newspaper Kyunghyang Shinmun that no hack or attempted theft had occurred at that point.

The report links two exchange notices: deposits and ordinary withdrawals stopped at 05:55 UTC, followed by trading at 06:53 UTC. Unfilled orders were cancelled. The exchange described moving crypto assets to cold storage following recent security incidents across the financial sector.

According to the same report, customers could request manual withdrawals through support, with verification and approval potentially delaying processing. That is a different level of access from a normally functioning withdrawal screen.

This article records the announced halt and the reporting available on 6 November. The linked GOPAX notices did not expose readable text during this check, so a current reopening status could not be independently established. A threat and a precautionary suspension should not be reported as proof that customer assets were stolen.