Incheon Seo District official's mistake exposes personal data of 1,000 people for 50 days
In Seo District, Incheon, the personal information of 1,000 people was exposed for 50 days due to a civil servant's mistake. The personal information filter also failed to work.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Seo District, Incheon
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Personal information of 1,000 people, exposed for 50 days
- Cause / method
- Civil servant's mistake and failure of personal information filtering
- 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 became known that the personal information of 1,000 people in Seo District, Incheon, had been exposed for 50 days due to a civil servant's mistake and a filtering failure.
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