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Global Financial Service Disruptions

VNDirect Securities

brokerage · VN · Southeast Asia · VNDirect Securities Corporation

Confirmed cyberStatus: resolvedTier 1Severity 4 of 5Evidence confidence: highAnalyst-verified

Vietnamese broker VNDirect was hit by a cyberattack on 24 March 2024 and both stock exchanges cut its trading connections the next day. Customers were unable to trade for more than a week while systems were restored in phases.

First disruption
Mar 24
First public signal
unknown
Acknowledged
Mar 24
Restored
resolved, time unknown
Duration
not established
DFX first recorded
Nov 5 14:58 UTC

What was restricted

tradingdepositsScope: institution wide

HOSE and HNX disconnected VNDirect from 25 Mar; clients could not trade for over a week; staff told not to move money into trading accounts; firm lost top 3 market share.

Cause, kept in separate layers

What the institution said
Cyberattack by an 'international organisation'; data encrypted (ransomware per press)
DFX classification
Confirmed cyber (cyber: confirmed)
Conflicting reports
Exact trading resumption day not confirmed (The Investor reported resumption set for the following Monday).

Evidence