President Lee Jae-myung ordered a full probe of hacks that exposed data at four Korean banks, including about 25,000 Shinhan Bank customers. The response runs through every financial industry association before the probe has shown whether the banks share a weak point.
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Hackers took data on 25,000 Shinhan customers through a site built for loan recruiters
South Korea's financial regulator gave lenders until Thursday to check every internet-facing system after hackers breached at least seven banks. Attackers entered through tools built for loan recruiters and staff, so the repair falls on how much credit data banks let outsiders see.
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Customers of seven hacked Korean lenders start recruiting for class-action suits
Victims of breaches at seven Korean lenders, Shinhan Bank among them, are recruiting members for class-action damages suits. With suspects in earlier Korean data cases still uncaught, the lenders look like the only parties those suits can reach.
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Korean regulators sent security orders to about 500 financial firms after the same attacker IP turned up in breaches at seven lenders. Almost every firm doing the emergency reviews has no reported breach, so the cost is shared across the sector.
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FSC chairman Lee Eok-won told Korean financial firms they will be held strictly accountable under law if the hacks that hit six lenders happen again. The threat covers future breaches, so for the firms already hit the cost so far is five requests, including security checks and customer compensation.
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Korean financial firms must shut outside access to the staff and broker pages hackers used
South Korea's Financial Services Commission will block outside access to staff and loan-broker web pages by default after leaks at six firms. Every page a firm keeps reachable now has to be justified as indispensable to services or work.
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South Korea's opposition wants intelligence agencies inside the probe of six lender hacks
South Korea's People Power Party wants intelligence agencies in a joint probe of hacks it says have hit six lenders, four of them commercial banks. Its spokesperson concedes the attacker is unknown, so whether the six share one cause will decide who answers for them.
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South Korea's Financial Services Commission ordered banks and card firms to check every externally reachable IT system after data leaks at four banks. The regulator will collect the returns and use them to build new cybersecurity measures for the financial sector.
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