Seoul education office's secondary school credit system website leaks 559 student records
The website of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education's High School Credit System Support Center was hacked, leaking 559 records of pupils' personal information. When the incident occurred, the specific attack method, and response measures have not been confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- 559 records of pupil personal information
- Cause / method
- Hacking of the High School Credit System Support Center website
- 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 ↗
Timeline
- The hacking of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education's High School Credit System Support Center website and the leak of 559 pupil personal information records came to light.
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