Financial institutions are not at risk from the first cyberattack on a Vietnamese brokerage, the market regulator said on Wednesday, after the third largest securities firm was suspended after it was targeted over the weekend.
VNDirect, Vietnam’s third largest broker in terms of
transactions handled according to the Ho Chi Minh City exchange, has been
disconnected from the trading system since Monday.
“We do not see risk of contagion,” Pham Hong Son, the vice
chairman of Vietnam’s State Securities Commission (SSC), told Reuters, adding
that no other brokers had been affected.
VNDirect was still disconnected from the system on Wednesday
as of 0600 GMT. It declined to comment on when it would resume trading. It also
declined to say how much damage it had sustained in the attack.
In a note published on Monday, the broker said its “entire
system was attacked by an international organization” on Sunday, making its
trading platform temporarily inaccessible, but with no impact on customers’
assets or data. The company’s shares have fallen by nearly 4 per cent since the
start of the week.
Asked about the attacker, the SSC declined to comment.
Son said there was no need to take additional action to
reduce the cyberattack’s impact on trading, adding that investors could use
accounts at other securities firms.
On Monday, transaction volumes on the HCMC bourse fell by 10
per cent, according to LSEG, as investors using VNDirect could not trade. The
benchmark index also fell 1.1 per cent on Monday.
"Despite notable rises in some tickers, the spotlight of the day was on VNDirect's cybersecurity breach, casting a shadow over market sentiment," Mirae Asset Securities, another broker said in a note.
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