Welcome Savings Bank has found evidence that corporate client information leaked outside the company, adding to a string of data breaches at South Korean financial firms targeted by hackers.
The savings bank discovered the breach involving corporate clients during an internal security review on the 3rd and reported it to financial regulators, according to financial industry sources on the 4th.
The information believed to have been exposed includes corporate names, the names of company contacts, email addresses and phone numbers. As many as 2,200 records have been identified so far.
Welcome Savings Bank has launched an investigation to determine how the hacking occurred and the scope and scale of the information actually leaked.
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Original reporting by Yeon Seung for Seoul Economic Daily.
AI-translated from Korean. Quotes from foreign sources are based on Korean-language reports and may not reflect exact original wording.
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