Allegations of unauthorised lookup and leak of Samsung Electronics employee data
Allegations were raised that a Samsung Electronics employee had accessed and leaked colleagues' personal information without authorisation. Samsung Electronics filed a criminal complaint against the employee, and it came to light that 20,000 records had been viewed in one hour. Later, in a personal data leak case related to union membership, six people, including the chair of the Super-Enterprise Union, were referred to prosecutors.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Samsung Electronics
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Alleged unauthorised lookup and leak of internal personal data by an employee
- Location
- South Korea
If your data was exposed
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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 ↗
Timeline
- Samsung Electronics filed a complaint against the employee suspected of unauthorised lookup and leak of employee personal data.
- It came to light that the employee had viewed 20,000 records in one hour.
- The investigation into the suspected Samsung Electronics personal data leak got under way in earnest.
- In the personal data leak case related to union membership, six people, including the chair of the Super-Enterprise Union, were referred to prosecutors.
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