Over 5 mil. resident registration number records leaked in Korea over 6 years
Resident registration numbers were exposed more than 5.05 million times in personal data breach cases that prompted enforcement action by the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) and the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) over the past six years, data showed Sunday. According to an analysis by the office of Rep. Han Chang-min of the Social Democratic Party, 130 cases involving the…
Between 2021 and September 2026, 130 instances of resident registration number exposure were subject to enforcement action, according to analysis by Rep. Han Chang-min of the Social Democratic Party. Excluding three cases with undetermined breach scales, the remaining cases resulted in a combined total of 5.05 million exposures.
The National Center for the Rights of the Child was the institution most affected, with 1.16 million exposures spread across three data breaches. Following closely were Yanolja, NHN Wetoo, Lotte Card, Duo Information, and LG Uplus, each experiencing significant breaches of resident registration number privacy.
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