720,000 items including nuclear plant technology leaked from Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power
SpilloverSpillover from the another organization incident · View original incident →720,000 items, including nuclear power plant technology, were leaked from Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power. Hacking by attackers believed to be North Korean was identified as the cause.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP)
- Original incident
- KHNP contractor hack leaks about 720,000 files including nuclear plant data
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- 720,000 items including nuclear power plant technology
- Cause / method
- Hacking by attackers believed to be North Korean
- 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 Center ↗Korean National Police Agency cybercrime report ↗Personal Information Dispute Mediation Committee ↗
Timeline
- The leak of 720,000 items, including nuclear power plant technology, from Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power was reported.
Original incident
This is spillover from the another organization incident.
KHNP contractor hack leaks about 720,000 files including nuclear plant data
Impact: About 720,000 files including nuclear power plant data, of which about 110,000 were KHNP technology-related materials
A KHNP contractor was hacked twice, in September 2020 and June 2024, and about 720,000 files including nuclear power plant data were stolen. The attackers exploited a vulnerability in a centralized document management system to obtain administrator passwords and were believed to be linked to North Korea. About 110,000 of the leaked files were found to be KHNP technology-related materials.
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