Personal info for 100, 000 S. Koreans leaked after hacking attack

[Erica Absetz <erica () riskbasedsecurity com>]

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.