Personal data of employment insurance subscribers leaked at COMWEL Goyang branch
Personal information of employment insurance subscribers was leaked due to misconduct by a former employee of the Goyang branch of the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service. The scale of the leak, when it occurred and follow-up measures have not been confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service (COMWEL)
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Personal information of employment insurance subscribers
- Cause / method
- Insider misconduct by a former employee
- Location
- South Korea
If your data was exposed
- Don’t tap links in texts, calls or emails that mention this incident and offer compensation, refunds or breach checks. Check directly on the organisation’s official website or app.
- If you’ve suffered harm, report it. Call 118 (no area code) for privacy violations, contact the police for financial losses, and apply for dispute mediation to seek compensation.Personal Information Infringement Report Centre ↗Korean National Police Agency cybercrime report ↗Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee ↗
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