Seoul National University Also Hit by 28 Hacking Incidents in Six Years... 1132 Pieces of ...

A total of 28 hacking incidents have occurred at Seoul National University over the past six years, resulting in the leak of 1,132 pieces of personal information.

According to data on hacking incidents by year that Seoul National University submitted on October 11 to Assemblywoman Baek Seunga of the Democratic Party of Korea, a member of the National Assembly’s Education Committee, a total of 28 hacking incidents were confirmed between 2021 and 2026.

Seoul National University Main Gate. Yonhap News Agency.

A total of 1,132 pieces of personal information were leaked over the six-year period. Of these, 1,130 were exposed in a hacking incident in 2021. At the time, hackers installed malware that allowed them to remotely issue commands to Seoul National University servers and stole personal identification information and portal IDs belonging to members of the university community. The remaining two cases of personal information exposure occurred in a 2024 hacking incident involving a research institute. The hackers were found to have targeted researchers’ profiles and résumé files. No personal information leaks were confirmed in the other hacking incidents.

More than 500 hacking attempts targeting Seoul National University were also found to have occurred each year. The number of hacking attempts detected and blocked by the university rose from 561 in 2024 to 575 in 2025. A further 588 attempts have been detected so far this year.

Regarding these figures, Seoul National University said, “They represent hacking attempts detected and blocked through security monitoring. We prevented incidents from escalating through real-time responses and immediately completed security measures.” Hot Picks Today Claims That "Daiso Is Being Shut Down to Save AliExpress and Temu" Spread Widely... A Fact-Check [Why& ] "Three-Star Rooms at 980,000 Won a Night, Five-Star at 2 Million"... Busan Fireworks Festival Seats Cost 100,000 Won, but Hotel Views Bring Another Price-Gouging Row "I Thought It Was a Fish": 40-Second Miracle... Fisherman Saves Drowning Puppy With CPR "All He Did Was Reheat and Eat Fried Rice Made the Day Before"... Man in His 20s Nearly Needed a Liver Transplant "Looks Like They're Having an Affair": What If You Opened a KakaoTalk Chat, Filmed It, and Shared the Video With Coworkers? Seoul National University said it immediately reported confirmed cases of personal information leaks to the Ministry of Education or the Personal Information Protection Commission. It added that it had never requested an investigation by law enforcement authorities.

Regarding these figures, Seoul National University said, “They represent hacking attempts detected and blocked through security monitoring. We prevented incidents from escalating through real-time responses and immediately completed security measures.”

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Seoul National University said it immediately reported confirmed cases of personal information leaks to the Ministry of Education or the Personal Information Protection Commission. It added that it had never requested an investigation by law enforcement authorities.