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Personal info for 100, 000 S. Koreans leaked after hacking attack
From: Erica Absetz <erica () riskbasedsecurity com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 10:05:51 -0500
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/06/30/Personal-info-for-100000-S-Koreans-leaked-after-hacking-attack/UPI-57121372605409/ SEOUL, June 30 (UPI) -- A recent hacking attack on a South Korean presidential website resulted in information for about 100,000 people being leaked, officials said Sunday. The information that was accessed included names, birth dates, identification numbers and addresses and Internet protocol addresses, Yonhap News Agency reported. Users' passwords and registration numbers, the South Korean equivalent to a U.S. Social Security number, were not leaked, a presidential official, whose name was not reported, said. Victims of the hacking can seek compensation, the official said. Anonymous, a loosely associated network of hackers, has taken responsibility for the attack, which targeted a website for the presidential office, as well as another government agency and several media organizations on Tuesday. Several North Korean websites were voluntarily taken offline on Tuesday after Anonymous warned of cyber attacks on the communist country. _______________________________________________ Dataloss-discuss Mailing List (dataloss-discuss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://lists.osvdb.org/mailman/listinfo/dataloss-discuss Supporters: Risk Based Security (http://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/) Risk Based Security equips organizations with security intelligence, risk management services and on-demand security solutions to establish customized risk-based programs to address information security and compliance challenges. Tenable Network Security (http://www.tenable.com/) Tenable Network Security provides a suite of solutions which unify real-time vulnerability, event and compliance monitoring into a single, role-based, interface for administrators, auditors and risk managers to evaluate, communicate and report needed information for effective decision making and systems management.
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