TVING account data breach
Add to my breach checkMade public · 39,540,697 accounts
What leaked11
Replaceable
- Password
Hard to replace
- Bank account number
- Mobile number
- Email address
- Other profile data
- Username
Permanent
- Connecting information
- Date of birth
- Purchase or order history
- Full name
- Gender
- Bank account numberrefund account
- Mobile numberpartly encrypted, but the encryption key leaked too · MSIT, via press
- Purchase or order historypayment history per MSIT via press
- Email addresspartly encrypted, but the encryption key leaked too · MSIT, via press
- Other profile dataDI · duplicate-registration check value; MSIT counted 20 fields of 70 types in total, including the CJ ONE integrated ID · via press
To-dos6 · about 1 h 30 min in all
- Change the leaked password everywhere you reused itStops: account takeover
- 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)
- Turn on two-step sign-in for email and bankingLimits harm from: account takeover
- Use an authenticator app or passkey instead of SMS codesLimits harm from: account takeover
What happened next22 events
Response: 11 events
Back to latest- MSIT: no harm to users confirmed so far, and no sign of the data being traded or circulated, on the dark web or elsewhere
- Information-security investment to rise about fourfold by 2030 versus the previous five years, and specialist staff in core areas threefold over five years
- Formal apology at a briefing on the government findings
- MSIT joint team result: developer access key stolen, 361 development projects and 39,540,697 accounts (with duplicates) leaked; hard-coded production keys; the theft route could not be established
- Email titled notice of the leak and apology sent
6 more
- Dedicated damage-consultation call centre opened
- CEO apology statement
- Notice that on June 2, 2026 it had found signs of unauthorised DB access and a data leak
- Personal data leak reported to PIPC
- Breach reported to KISA, more than 24 hours after awareness
- DB overload alert during the first exfiltration attempt; TVING blocked the query job
- Company
- TVING
- When it happened
- –
- Company detected it
- Made public
- Notice
- Leak confirmed
- Affected
- 39,540,697 accounts · MSIT: 22,063,021 active, 8,502,679 dormant, 8,868,174 withdrawn, 106,823 test; people pending PIPC
How the facts developed
- MSIT result: 39,540,697 accounts, developer access key stolen, encryption keys leaked, payment history included
- Notice in the TVING app listing ID, name, birth date, gender, phone number, email and refund account number (press)
Sources
- 개인정보보호위원회 regulator (opens in a new tab)checked October 15, 2026
- 바이라인네트워크 press (opens in a new tab)checked October 15, 2026
- 디지털데일리 press (opens in a new tab)checked October 15, 2026
- 톱스타뉴스 press (opens in a new tab)checked October 17, 2026
- 이투데이 press (opens in a new tab)checked October 17, 2026
- 과학기술정보통신부 regulator (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026