Rural Development Administration website hack leaks around 479,000 personal records
The Rural Development Administration's website was hacked, and around 479,000 personal records, including member information, were estimated to have been leaked. The RDA apologised, completed breach reporting and notification, and ran an incident response task force and a call centre for the public. It later also activated a cyber incident response team.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Rural Development Administration (RDA)
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Around 479,000 personal records
- Cause / method
- Website hacking
- 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 ↗
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Timeline
- Additional leaks of website member information and other data were confirmed, bringing the estimated scale of the breach to around 479,000 records.
- The RDA apologised again for the personal data leak and set up a task force.
- The RDA said it had completed breach reporting and notification and was running an incident response task force and a call centre for the public.
- It emerged that the RDA had activated a cyber incident response team.
- It emerged that the RDA had not taken out personal data liability insurance.
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