GS Retail credential-stuffing breach
Add to my breach checkMade public · 1,660,153 people
What leaked7
Hard to replace
- Mobile number
- Home or delivery address
- Email address
- Username
Permanent
- Date of birth
- Full name
- Gender
To-dos4 · about 45 min in all
- Know the scam pattern: calls and texts that cite these leaked detailsLimits harm from: scam calls, phishing messages
- Register as an exposed person with the FSSLimits harm from: scam calls (opens in a new tab)
- Block new loans and cards in your nameLimits harm from: scam calls (opens in a new tab)
- Remove your address and phone from public profiles and tighten SNS privacyLimits harm from: visits or contact at home
What happened next13 events
- Undetected 2 events197 days · show events
- Response 7 eventsNotice in 54 days · Back to latest
- RemedyNone on record
- Penalty 4 eventsFine ₩12.8B · show events
- DisputesNone on record
Response: 7 events
Back to latest- Stronger login identity checks; information-protection committee with top management set up
- Apology posted on the website for the GS SHOP leak
- Texts sent to about 1.58 million GS SHOP customers whose data leaked
- Same attack on the GS SHOP website found only in February 2025; leaking continued after the first detection
- Company apology for the GS25 leak
- Announced a website hack exposing about 90,000 customers · GS25
- Attacking IPs blocked, customer accounts locked and pages showing personal data temporarily closed
- Company
- GS Retail
- When it happened
- –
- Company detected it
- Made public
- Notice
- Leak confirmed
- Affected
- 1,660,153 people · 1,581,025 GS SHOP + 79,128 GS25; PIPC
How the facts developed
- Announced on January 6, 2025: about 90,000 customers affected (press). PIPC later found 1,581,025 GS SHOP and 79,128 GS25 members affected; 1,599 more people identified during its investigation were notified more than 72 hours after the leak was known
Sources
- 개인정보보호위원회 regulator (opens in a new tab)checked October 16, 2026
- 한국경제 press (opens in a new tab)checked October 16, 2026
- 한국일보 press (opens in a new tab)checked October 17, 2026