Lotte Card online-payment server breach
Add to my breach checkMade public · 2,969,000 people
What leaked6
Replaceable
- Card CVV/CVC
- Card number
- Card, bank or site PIN
Hard to replace
- Other profile data
Permanent
- Connecting information
- Resident registration number
- Card CVV/CVCabout 283,000 people
- Card numberabout 280,000 per Lotte's briefing
- Resident registration number450,000 people
- Card, bank or site PINcard password · two digits per Lotte
- Other profile datavirtual payment code, internal id, simple-payment service type
To-dos2 · about 20 min in all
What happened next39 events
Penalty: 11 events
Back to latest- FSS findings: critical patch missing on online payment servers, no web firewall registration, plaintext RRN and passwords in logs, no antivirus; a retired executive notified of violations at reprimand-warning level; three staff (one retired) given suspension- or pay-cut-level sanctions
- FSC imposed a 1.5-month partial business suspension · new-member cards, the first for a hacking leak
- FSC penalty surcharge of KRW 5 billion under the Credit Information Act
- KMCC administrative fine of KRW 11.25 million for failing to safeguard connecting information · CI, about 1.29 million CI leaked
- PIPC ordered publication of the sanction on the company website and an overhaul of data protection incl. CPO independence
6 more
- PIPC administrative fine of KRW 4.8 million
- PIPC penalty surcharge of KRW 9.62 billion for processing RRNs without legal basis and weak encryption
- PIPC found resident registration numbers of 450,000 people leaked from plaintext payment logs
- PIPC opened an investigation after the FSS passed on the credit-data leak report
- FSS and Financial Security Institute began an on-site investigation
- National Office of Investigation opened a criminal investigation of the hack
- Company
- Lotte Card
- When it happened
- –
- Company detected it
- Made public
- Notice
- Leak confirmed
- Affected
- 2,969,000 people · FSC; 283,000 with card password and CVC; 450,000 with RRN · PIPC
How the facts developed
- PIPC decision: resident registration numbers of 450,000 people leaked, logged in plaintext; 과징금 96억 2,000만원
- 200 GB; 2.969 million people; card password and CVC for about 283,000; card reissue for those at risk of key-in fraud
- Reported to the financial authorities; about 1.7 GB estimated at first (press)
Sources
- 금융위원회 regulator, (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- 금융위원회 regulator, (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- 개인정보보호위원회 regulator (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- 뉴시스 press (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- 바이라인네트워크 press (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- 롯데카드 company notice (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026