High school student hacks course registration system, leaking data of 559 students
A high school student hacked the course registration system of a hub school under the high school credit system, cancelled other students' course registrations and downloaded 559 course registration forms without authorisation. The forms contained students' names, contact details, addresses, dates of birth, schools and guardians' names, among other information. The timing of the incident and response measures have not been confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Personal information of 559 students and 559 course registration forms; unauthorised cancellation of other students' registrations
- Cause / method
- Hacking of the course registration system and unauthorised download of forms by a high school student
- Location
- South Korea
If your data was exposed
Exposed dataNamePhone numberAddressDate of birth
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- 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
- A high school student's hacking of the high school credit system's course registration system and unauthorised download of 559 course registration forms came to light.
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