Hacked Seoul citizen email accounts used in phishing posing as officials
Some Seoul citizen email accounts were hacked and used to send phishing emails impersonating public officials. The emails, which proposed a virtual meeting about anti-North Korea leaflets, carried attachments with hidden malware. With North Korean hackers suspected, police raided Seoul City Hall and secured the relevant account information.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Seoul Metropolitan Government
- Incident type
- Phishing & smishing
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Hacking of some Seoul citizen email accounts
- Cause / method
- Hacked citizen email accounts used to impersonate officials and send phishing emails with malware-laden attachments
- 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
- It was reported that some Seoul citizen email accounts had been used to send phishing emails impersonating officials, and that police had raided Seoul City Hall.
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