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GS E&C apartment community system hacked, exposing residents’ data

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GS Engineering & Construction’s apartment community facility booking and management system was hacked, exposing some residents’ personal information. The affected complexes and number of people are under investigation, with addresses, encrypted passwords, administrator IDs and RF card numbers among the information potentially exposed. After GS E&C declined to consent to an investigation by the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA), citing its own investigation, the Ministry of Science and ICT decided on 11 November to launch an ex officio investigation into the cause and scale of the incident.

Key facts

Affected organisation
GS Engineering & Construction
Incident type
Data breach
Occurred / detected
Not confirmed
Scale of damage
Personal information of some apartment residents; affected complexes and number of people under investigation
Cause / method
Hacking of the apartment community facility booking and management system
Location
South Korea

If your data was exposed

  1. 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.
  2. 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

  1. It emerged that a hack of the apartment community booking system had exposed some residents’ personal information.
  2. It was confirmed that the first unauthorised access occurred 1 hour and 14 minutes before detection and that the affected complexes and number of people were under investigation.
  3. The Ministry of Science and ICT decided to launch an ex officio investigation to determine the cause and scale of the incident.

58 related reports

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