Holiday-season phishing posing as flight and hotel bookings causes financial losses
Phishing scams impersonating flight and hotel bookings surged during the holiday season. Fake confirmation emails led to financial losses of several million won.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Phishing & smishing
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Financial losses of several million won
- Cause / method
- Phishing impersonating flight and hotel booking confirmation emails
- 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
- Phishing via fake confirmation emails impersonating holiday-season flight and hotel bookings, and the resulting financial losses, were reported.
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