Korea's Financial Security Institute reports leak after hacking
Original title: Kr: Financial Security Institute reports data leak following hacking incident
Officials say a security-assessment website was hit and some firms' security-status submissions may have been exposed.
Yonhap News reports that South Korea's state-run Financial Security Institute detected a hacking attack on its security assessment system the day before the report. The institute oversees financial information provided by banks and insurers. Officials said some information related to the security status submitted by financial firms may have been compromised. The leaked material reportedly came from the website used for those assessments.
Unconfirmed: Officials say some security-status information may have been compromised; the scope is unconfirmed.
- The FSI detected the breach the day before the Tuesday report.
- The target was the website used to assess financial institutions.
- Officials did not confirm how much data was taken.
Impact: Possible exposure of firms' security-status submissions
- Victims
- Financial Security Institute
- Countries
- South Korea
From the original article
2 min read at databreaches.netYonhap News reports: Korea’s state-run Financial Security Institute (FSI) reported a data leak following a hacking attack targeting its security assessment system, officials said on Tuesday. The FSI, which oversees financial information provided by banks and insurers, detected the breach the previous day, according to financial authorities. The leaked information reportedly came from the FSI’s...
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