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It has become difficult to find a place that hasn’t been breached by hacking. This time, suspected hacking activity has been detected in “Yellow Umbrella,” a retirement pay mutual aid system subscribed to by 1.92 million small business owners. It appears that self-employed individuals’ names, phone numbers, and even home addresses have been leaked, and the exact number of victims has not even been figured out yet.
Reporter Eom Minjae has the details.
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This is a notice posted on the Yellow Umbrella website by the Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business (KBIZ) today (the 14th).
The notice states that there was abnormal external access to the website on the 11th, and it is suspected that a third party viewed some customer personal information.
Yellow Umbrella is a mutual aid system designed to help small business owners prepare retirement funds for business closure or old age, with the number of subscribers reaching 1.92 million.
The information that may have been leaked includes names, the first 7 digits of resident registration numbers, mobile phone numbers, home addresses and phone numbers, and email addresses.
It explained that the last digits of resident registration numbers are managed with encryption.
KBIZ stated that even today, three days after the incident occurred, it is still checking exactly how many people’s information was leaked and which parts were attacked and how.
[Industry Official: Because it contains data not only on personal information but also on all business operations, there is a very high possibility that this could lead to secondary crimes utilizing business owners’ credit, which is why this situation is extremely concerning….]
KBIZ urged people not to respond to phone calls or text messages impersonating KBIZ or Yellow Umbrella employees that ask for money or loans, or demand the input of IDs and passwords.
In addition, the leakage of personal information of about 3,000 people was confirmed due to external access on “chak,” the mobile local love gift certificate platform of the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation (KOMSCO), showing a trend where damage is expanding from the financial sector to public platforms.
(Photo courtesy of: Kim Hyun-sang | Video edited by: Won Hyung-hee | Design: Lee Jong-jung)
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