DB Savings Bank suspected leak of staff and contractor data

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Made public · 142 staff and contractors

What happened next7 events

  1. FSC named the savings bank among 16 financial firms with breaches confirmed before and after the Shinhan Bank attack
  2. Incident reported to the Financial Supervisory Service
  3. Attack IP blacklisted on the firewall at 18:54
  4. Incident noticed at 18:00; it began at 12:28 the same day
  5. Intrusion began
  6. Customer notice said the hacking attempt was blocked and general customer data did not leak
  7. Affected staff and contractors texted a warning about spam and impersonation emails
Company
DB Savings Bank
When it happened
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Company detected it
Made public
Notice
Possible leak
Affected
142 staff and contractors · 122 employees including former ones, 20 project contractors; presumed; press

How the facts developed

  1. Press, citing the bank's report to the FSS: data of 142 staff and contractors presumed leaked by the project's contractor staff during a digital-channel project running since November 2024; someone tried to use the leaked data for loan-limit checks, and the bank blocked them

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