Data of 800,000 Samsung Card holders may have been leaked

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110908001012

The Korea Herald
2011-09-08

Samsung Card Co., South Korea's leading card firm, is suspected of 
having come under an online security breach that could have leaked about 
800,000 customers' personal data, sources said Thursday.

Samsung Card has asked the police to investigate an employee regarding 
the suspected leakage of customer data, including their names and mobile 
phone numbers.

Sources said Samsung Card submitted to the police a document in which an 
employee of the card firm confessed that about 800,000 customers' data 
might have been leaked.

"But for now, the exact extent of the damage is unknown," said an 
official at Samsung Card.

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