South Chungcheong city gas supplier leaks customer data in ransomware attack
A city gas supplier in South Korea's South Chungcheong Province was hacked, leaking customers' personal information. The information leaked in the ransomware attack included customers' bank account numbers and card numbers.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Ransomware
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Personal information including customers' bank account and card numbers
- Cause / method
- Ransomware attack
- Location
- South Korea
If your data was exposed
Exposed dataCard detailsBank account
- Turn on payment alerts in your card issuer’s app, and if you see a charge you don’t recognize, ask the issuer to block and reissue the card.
- Turn on deposit and withdrawal alerts in your banking app. You can check all accounts in your name at once and request a payment suspension if needed.Account Info (integrated account management) ↗
- 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
- A ransomware attack on a South Chungcheong city gas supplier and the leak of personal information, including customers' bank account and card numbers, came to light.
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