Yes24 ransomware, possible personal-data leak
Add to my breach checkMade public
What leaked4
Hard to replace
- Mobile number
- Home or delivery address
- Username
Permanent
- Full name
To-dos4 · about 45 min in all
- Know the scam pattern: calls and texts that cite these leaked detailsLimits harm from: phishing messages, scam calls
- 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 next22 events
Response: 11 events
Back to latest- Second outage of about seven hours, restored from backup
- Second ransomware attack; systems cut off and KISA notified
- Apology posted with the first compensation plan
- Customer notice on possible leak: no leak found at that point, affected items (name, ID, contact, address) to be notified individually if confirmed
- Leak report filed with the PIPC citing abnormal member-information lookups
6 more
- Administrator accounts recovered; service restoration began
- Statement naming ransomware as the cause, with an apology; it said no member data had leaked
- Incident reported to KISA
- All services (books, tickets, eBook, e-library, Sarak) unavailable
- Press reported Yes24 restored its services by paying the attacker cryptocurrency worth several billion won; Yes24 has never said whether this is true
- KISA technical-support results (time of report, cause, remedies) sent to Yes24 around autumn 2025; press names unsupported Windows Server 2012 among the causes
- Company
- Yes24
- When it happened
- Company detected it
- Made public
- Notice
- Possible leak
- Affected
- unknown; abnormal member-information lookups reported
How the facts developed
- Notice that, if a leak is confirmed, affected customers will be told individually which items leaked, naming name, ID, contact and address (press)
- Statement naming ransomware as the cause and saying no member data had leaked (press)
Sources
- 개인정보보호위원회 regulator (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- ZDNet Korea press, (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- ZDNet Korea press, (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- 바이라인네트워크 press (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026
- 예스24 company notice (opens in a new tab)checked October 22, 2026