Employee ID numbers of around 80,000 Shinsegae Group staff and others leaked
The employee ID numbers of around 80,000 employees and some partner-company staff were leaked from the Shinsegae Group intranet. For around 3,000 of them, names, departments and IP addresses were also leaked, and malware introduced from outside was thought to be the cause. Shinsegae said at the time that no customer information had been leaked, and the investigation was later widened over suspicions of North Korean involvement.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Shinsegae Group
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Employee ID numbers of around 80,000 employees and partner-company staff, including names, departments and IP addresses of around 3,000
- Cause / method
- Thought to be malware introduced from outside
- Location
- South Korea
If your data was exposed
Exposed dataName
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- 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
- Shinsegae Group disclosed the leak of information on around 80,000 people, including employees, and said no customer information had been leaked as of that time.
- It emerged that Shinsegae reported the leak two days after becoming aware of it.
- The investigation was widened over suspicions of North Korean involvement in the hack of employee information.
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