National Credit Union Federation of Korea heavily sanctioned over leak of about 180,000 personal credit records
In 2019, an employee of the National Credit Union Federation of Korea who was due to retire leaked 184,465 personal credit records, including member names, loan account numbers, loan amounts and outstanding balances, by email to an employee of a local credit union. Inadequate internal controls were also found, and the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) imposed an institutional warning and a fine of 2.872 billion won, amongst other penalties, on the federation.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- National Credit Union Federation of Korea
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- 184,465 personal credit records of members
- Cause / method
- An employee due to retire leaked personal credit information by email to a local credit union employee, combined with inadequate internal controls
- Location
- South Korea
If your data was exposed
Exposed dataNameBank account
- 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.
- Turn on deposit and withdrawal alerts in your banking app. You can check all accounts in your name at once and request a payment suspension if needed.Account Info (integrated account management) ↗
- 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
- It was reported that the Financial Supervisory Service had imposed an institutional warning and a fine of 2.872 billion won, amongst other penalties, on the National Credit Union Federation of Korea over the 2019 leak of personal credit information and inadequate internal controls.
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