Golfzon ransomware data breach
Add to my breach checkMade public · 2,210,000 people
What leaked7
Hard to replace
- Bank account number
- Mobile number
- Email address
- Username
Permanent
- Resident registration number
- Date of birth
- Full name
- Resident registration number5,831 people
- Bank account number1,647 people
To-dos6 · about 50 min in all
- Block new loans and cards in your nameStops: loans or cards in your name · Limits harm from: scam calls (opens in a new tab)
- Block non-face-to-face account opening in your nameStops: bank account in your name · Limits harm from: scam calls (opens in a new tab)
- Register as an exposed person with the FSSLimits harm from: scam calls, loans or cards in your name, bank account in your name (opens in a new tab)
- Know the scam pattern: calls and texts that cite these leaked detailsLimits harm from: scam calls, phishing messages
- Check your credit records and block status on credit4uHelps you notice: loans or cards in your name (opens in a new tab)
- Report the lost resident ID card on Gov24Limits harm from: bank account in your name (opens in a new tab)
What happened next18 events
- Undetected 2 events1 day · show events
- Response 11 eventsNotice in 21 days · show events
- RemedyNone on record
- Penalty 5 eventsFine ₩7.5B · Back to latest
- DisputesNone on record
Penalty: 5 events
Back to latest- Corrective order (internal management plan, safeguards, CPO role, staff training) and publication order
- Administrative fine of KRW 5.4 million for failing to destroy personal data · Art. 21
- Penalty surcharge of about KRW 7.5 billion for breach of the safeguard duty · Art. 29
- A VPN allowed ID/password-only access to the internal network, where a file server lacked safeguards; over 2.21M users and staff leaked, incl. resident registration numbers of 5,831 and bank accounts of 1,647
- PIPC said it would assign a division and open an investigation
- Company
- Golfzon
- When it happened
- –
- Company detected it
- Made public
- Notice
- Leak confirmed
- Affected
- 2,210,000 people: service users and employees · PIPC: 약 221만명 이상; RRN of 5,831 people and bank account numbers of 1,647 people
How the facts developed
- PIPC decision itemises RRN and bank-account subsets; 과징금 75억 400만원, 과태료 540만원
- Leak notice after the December 8, 2023 dark-web posting
Sources
- 개인정보보호위원회 regulator (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- press via Daum press (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- 디지털데일리 press (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026