Savings Bank also hit by data breach… 2200 corporate-customer records leaked - 경향신문

Amid random hacking attacks targeting the domestic financial sector, it has emerged that more than 2,000 corporate-customer records were also leaked at Welcome Savings Bank.

According to the financial sector on the 4th, Welcome Savings Bank confirmed during an internal inspection the day that it had been subjected to a hacking attack related to corporate customers and reported it to the authorities.

It is estimated that up to 2,200 items of corporate-customer information, including corporate names, names of corporate persons, email addresses, and phone numbers, were leaked. Welcome Savings Bank is determining the precise circumstances of the breach and the extent of the damage.

It was belatedly confirmed that information leaks also occurred recently in the online investment-linked finance sector (On-Tu).

PFCT announced on its website on the 29th of last month that, due to an external electronic intrusion on the 27th, the personal information of some users had been leaked. It is reported that the personal information of 300 customers was taken.

Mouda also announced via a notice on the 29th of last month that some personal and personal credit information may have been leaked externally. It stated that an external third party appears to have accessed the website illegally on the 27th of the same month and that, after detecting abnormal signs, it blocked internet addresses (IP)·bypass routes.

However, it has not yet been confirmed whether these On-Tu firmsu2019 information leaks are part of the comprehensive hacking incidents across the financial sector that used artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. In fact, the On-Tu sector was excluded from the list of participants for the ‘Emergency All-Financial-Sector Inspection Meeting on Response to Intrusion Threats’ presided over by the financial authorities that afternoon.