Younghoon Medical Foundation (Sun hospitals) website member data breach (2024)
Add to my breach check188,481 people
What leaked6
Replaceable
- Plain-text password
- Password
Hard to replace
- Mobile number
- Username
Permanent
- Date of birth
- Full name
- Plain-text passwordsome passwords could be decrypted
- Passwordstored with an unsafe algorithm and no salt
To-dos4 · about 1 h in all
- Change the leaked password everywhere you reused itStops: account takeover
- 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
- Know the scam pattern: calls and texts that cite these leaked detailsLimits harm from: phishing messages
What happened next3 events
- UndetectedNone on record
- ResponseNo individual notice on record
- RemedyNone on record
- Penalty 3 eventsFine ₩630M · Back to latest
- DisputesNone on record
Penalty: 3 events
Back to latest- Ordered to check its personal data systems for flaws regularly and fix them
- Penalty surcharge of KRW 630 million
- PIPC found the hospital website collected member data out of habit, ran no web firewall, never checked for SQL injection or validated input, and stored passwords with an unsafe algorithm and no salt; 188,481 people affected
- Company
- Younghoon Medical Foundation
- When it happened
- Notice
- Leak confirmed
- Affected
- 188,481 people · hospital website members; PIPC
How the facts developed
- PIPC found that an attacker used an SQL injection flaw on the hospital website in March 2024 and took data of 188,481 website members
Sources
- 개인정보보호위원회 regulator (opens in a new tab)checked November 3, 2026