Election Commission security incident history
Hacking, data breaches and other security incidents involving Election Commission, with related coverage.
NEC leaks resident registration numbers while disclosing accounting records
Impact: Personal information including resident registration numbers
The National Election Commission (NEC) leaked personal information while disclosing accounting records of the Rebuilding Korea Party. The leaked information included resident registration numbers, and the scale of the damage and the response have not been confirmed.
Read on 아시아투데이 ↗Data of about 3,000 National Election Commission employees leaked to external site
3kImpact: Names, department names, IP addresses and PC security inspection scorecards of about 3,000 employees
During an internal security inspection at South Korea's National Election Commission, a contract worker posted the inspection results to VirusTotal, leaking the data of about 3,000 employees. The leaked data included names, department names, IP addresses and PC security inspection scorecards. The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) received a report on 26 June 2024 and began verifying the facts.
Read on 쿠키뉴스 ↗Election commission employee's work PC hacked, data leaked
Impact: Data on an employee's work PC
It belatedly came to light in April 2024 that the work PC of a National Election Commission employee had been hacked and data leaked. Concerns were raised about the risk of login credentials being leaked through an infostealer infection and the need to check whether the internal work network had been breached. A dereliction-of-duty complaint over the response to the hacking notification was later dropped without referral to prosecutors.
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