KISIA newsletter subscribers' email addresses leaked
In January 2025, it emerged that around 10,000 email addresses of newsletter subscribers of the Korea Information Security Industry Association had been leaked. The leak was attributed to human error.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Korea Information Security Industry Association (KISIA)
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Around 10,000 newsletter subscriber email addresses
- Cause / method
- Human error
- Location
- South Korea
If your data was exposed
Exposed dataEmail
- 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 leak of email addresses of Korea Information Security Industry Association newsletter subscribers came to light.
- It emerged that around 10,000 records were leaked and that the cause was human error.
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