Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Angry S Koreans flood banks after data leak...

Tens of thousands of South Koreans flooded banks and call centres on Tuesday to cancel their credit cards following the unprecedented theft of the personal data of at least 20 million people.

Since Monday, more than 1.15 million victims of the country's largest-ever leak of private financial information have cancelled their credit cards permanently or requested new ones, according to the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS).

The panic has its roots in the arrest earlier this month of an employee from personal credit ratings firm Korea Credit Bureau, on charges of stealing and selling data from customers of three credit card firms while working as a temporary consultant.

On Sunday, financial regulators announced that at least 20 million people -- in a country of 50 million -- had been victims of the data theft.

The data stolen from the internal servers of KB Kookmin Card, Lotte Card and NH Nonghyup Card included names, social security numbers, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, credit card numbers and expiration dates. Full story...

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