Bank of Korea Employee Data of 186 Leaked After Cyber Intrusion Attempts Top 2,000 Over 5 Years
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The personal information of 186 Bank of Korea employees was leaked through an external intrusion in May and June this year.
The leaked information included names, company names, email addresses, phone numbers, job titles, duties, affiliations, and encrypted passwords.
Hacking attempts targeting the Bank of Korea's website and other IT systems topped 2,000 over the past five years or so, and were tallied at 2,063 from 2021 through this August.
The personal information of 186 Bank of Korea employees was disclosed retroactively after being leaked in May and June this year. According to materials submitted by the Bank of Korea and confirmed by People Power Party lawmaker Lee Jong-wook of the National Assembly's Planning and Finance Committee on the 28th, hacking attempts targeting the Bank of Korea's website and other IT systems have also topped 2,000 over the past five years or so.
According to the materials, an external intrusion occurred on GitHub, a system used by the vendor entrusted with handling personal information for the Bank of Korea's online training program, between May 9 and June 8 this year. GitHub is a representative open-source platform used by developers.
The intrusion affected 186 Bank of Korea employees and the vendor's member companies. The leaked information included names, company names, email addresses, phone numbers, job titles, duties, affiliations, and encrypted passwords.
The same materials also said that hacking attempts targeting the Bank of Korea's website and other IT systems have exceeded 2,000 over the past five years or so. The photo shows the exterior of the Bank of Korea headquarters in Jung-gu, Seoul.
The Bank of Korea said it was notified by the vendor of the leak on June 11. The central bank informed the affected employees and has also completed a report to the Personal Information Protection Commission.
An incident involving the Bank of Korea website also occurred in 2023. At the time, personal information was exposed when application forms for statistical survey assistant recruits were made public, and the Bank of Korea deleted the material the following day and notified the parties involved.
Separately, hacking attempts targeting the Bank of Korea totaled 2,063 from 2021 through this August, according to the latest tally. By year, the attempts numbered 1,557 in 2021, 192 in 2022, 97 in 2023, 52 in 2024, 30 last year and 135 through this August. The trend had been declining since 2021, but rose again this year. By type, the hacking attempts consisted of 125 unauthorized access attempts and 10 malware attempts.
Source: IT DAILY · Kim Ho-jun
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