Data breaches confirmed at two online peer-to-peer lenders
Data breaches were confirmed at two online peer-to-peer lending companies. At one of them, PFCT, the personal information of 302 people was leaked.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- PFCT
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Personal data of 302 people leaked at PFCT
- Cause / method
- External 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 ↗
Timeline
- Data breaches at two online peer-to-peer lenders became known, along with the scale of the PFCT leak, 302 people.
- An analysis was presented suggesting that basic security measures made the difference in who was hit in the hacking of online peer-to-peer lenders.
3 related reports
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