Town office official provided 10 workers' personal data to criminal group
An official at a town office was investigated by police on suspicion of misappropriating the personal information of 10 fixed-term workers without authorisation and handing it to a criminal organisation via Telegram. The official was found to have received a total of 1 million won on two occasions in return for providing the personal information.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Personal information of 10 fixed-term workers
- Cause / method
- Unauthorised misappropriation of personal information by an official and its provision to a criminal organisation via Telegram
- 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 a town office official had been investigated by police on suspicion of handing the personal information of 10 fixed-term workers to a criminal organisation and receiving a total of 1 million won.
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