Korea Financial Firms Hit By More Hacks as Asia Breaches Grow October 28, 2026 By Heesu Lee and Haram Lim South Korea’s financial industry was hit by a second wave of cyberattacks in about a month as a series of...
AI Tool That Hacked Korean Banks Was Used in Japan: Security Firm October 20, 2026 By Mayumi Negishi The hackers who recently infiltrated some of Japan’s biggest companies used an AI tool developed in China and linked to...
South Korea, Japan Buffeted by Hacks as AI Lowers Bar for Cybercriminals October 9, 2026 By Kyu-seok Shim, Brenda Goh and Kentaro Okasaka South Korean and Japanese companies are racing to strengthen cyber defenses after a wave of attacks that cybersecurity experts say...
So. Korean Banks Were Likely Hacked by China-Based Actor With AI Agent: CrowdStrike October 8, 2026 By Kyu-seok Shim and Brenda Goh The suspect behind recent cyberattacks at South Korean banks was likely a China-based 26-year-old who used a Chinese-developed AI agent...
South Korea Orders Security Checks After Finance-Sector Data Leaks October 5, 2026 By Jaehyun Eom South Korean regulators urged financial institutions to promptly complete internal security inspections and report the results to authorities after a...
AI Tools Suspected in Korea’s Shinhan Bank Hack, Yonhap News Reports October 2, 2026 By Soobin Kim Advanced artificial intelligence tools may have been used in a cyberattack on South Korea’s Shinhan Bank Co. that exposed information...
South Korea Fines Telecoms Firm KT Corp. $37.4 Million for Personal Data Leak: Panel August 3, 2026 South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission has fined telecoms company KT Corp. 54 billion won ($37.43 million) for a leak...
Hacker Breaches South Korean Database of Nearly All Diplomats July 23, 2026 By Mark Anderson South Korea has been hit by a “significant” data leak that could affect all of its diplomats following a breach...
South Korea Fines Coupang Record $409 Million for Data Breach June 12, 2026 By Jaehyun Eom and Shinhye Kang A South Korean regulator fined the country’s largest e-commerce platform, owned by US-listed Coupang Inc., a record 624.7 billion won...
S. Korea Blames Coupang Data Breach on Management Failure, Not Sophisticated Attack February 10, 2026 By Heekyong Yang and Hyunjoo Jin South Korean officials blamed a massive data leak last year at Coupang on management failure, rather than a sophisticated cyberattack,...