Last updated: February 5, 2023, 9:01 AM IST
LG Uplus said last month’s data breach affected a total of 290,000 users.
On January 10, the country’s third-largest wireless carrier announced that the personal information of 180,000 customers, including their names, dates of birth and phone numbers, had been breached.
LG Uplus said last month’s data breach affected a total of 290,000 users, about 110,000 more than initially suspected.
On January 10, the country’s third-largest wireless carrier announced that the personal information of 180,000 customers, including their names, dates of birth and phone numbers, had been breached.
The company said on its website that it found personal data of about 110,000 other customers who had canceled their subscriptions had also been compromised, yonhap news agency reported.
It had stored the data under the e-commerce consumer protection law.
The leaked data does not contain any financial information, it added.
“We are actively cooperating with the investigation by the authorities and the government to determine when and how the personal data was leaked,” the company said.
The case is being investigated by the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, the Personal Information Protection Commission and the Korea Internet & Security Agency.
“We will strengthen our monitoring system so that such an incident does not happen again and we will do our best to come up with countermeasures,” the agency said.
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