Employees and corporations indicted without detention over leak of 39,000 patients' data
Pharmaceutical company employees and related corporations were indicted without detention over a case in which the information of 39,000 patients was leaked. Those indicted included a university hospital and a pharmaceutical corporation.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Information of 39,000 patients leaked
- Cause / method
- Not confirmed
- 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 organization’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 Center ↗Korean National Police Agency cybercrime report ↗Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee ↗
Timeline
- It was reported that pharmaceutical company employees and corporate entities including a university hospital and a pharmaceutical company had been indicted without detention over the leak of 39,000 patients' information.
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