Declassified information about the credit card holders
The personal data of 20 million South Koreans, who make up 40 % of the population, was stolen. Shocked citizens try to replace declassified credit cards, as reported by CNN money.
The worker of Korean credit bureau collected customer information. This company has provided services for risk management and fraud detection. One of the employees of this company had access to different databases in the organization. It is assumed that he secretly copied the information to an external drive during a year or more.
Most of the data theft affected the customers of three Korean companies - KB Kookmin Bank, Lotte Card and Nonghyup Bank. Personal information such as ID numbers, addresses, credit card numbers, etc. were stolen.
