Employee ID numbers of about 80,000 Shinsegae Group staff and others leaked
The employee ID numbers of about 80,000 employees and some partner-company staff were leaked from the Shinsegae Group intranet. For about 3,000 of them, names, departments and IP addresses were also leaked, and malware introduced from outside was believed to be the cause. Shinsegae said at the time that no customer information had been leaked, and the investigation was later expanded over suspicions of North Korean involvement.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Shinsegae Group
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Employee ID numbers of about 80,000 employees and partner-company staff, including names, departments and IP addresses of about 3,000
- Cause / method
- Believed to be malware introduced from outside
- Location
- South Korea
If your data was exposed
Exposed dataName
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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 ↗
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Timeline
- Shinsegae Group disclosed the leak of information on about 80,000 people, including employees, and said no customer information had been leaked as of that time.
- It emerged that Shinsegae reported the leak two days after becoming aware of it.
- The investigation was expanded over suspicions of North Korean involvement in the hack of employee information.
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