Three Hot Issues Shaking Confidence in the Thai Stock Market

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The Thai stock market is facing three events that are shaking investor confidence. It started with the case of Supaporn Pimpong, who reported the acquisition of securities via Form 246-2 for six securities: TRUE, MAJOR, KBANK, BBL, GJS, and AAV. Later, the Securities and Exchange Commission stated that the report involved non-existent shares and filed a complaint with the Economic Crime Suppression Division for submitting false documents. Subsequently, the Securities and Exchange Commission also filed a complaint against Bitkub Online Company Limited and a former director for reporting false information about a cyber attack that caused a loss of 1.7 billion baht five years ago. Most recently, Thailand Securities Depository Company Limited detected unauthorized access to data in the TSD Investor Portal system, leading to the leak of personal information of approximately 200,000 investors out of a total of 5 million. Although it was confirmed that no shareholding information or portfolio values were leaked, the exposed data includes names, surnames, dates of birth, national ID numbers, addresses, phone numbers, emails, securities companies used, trading account numbers, bank names, and bank account numbers, which is enough to affect investor confidence.

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