Financial Supervisory Service, on-site inspection of Yegaram Savings Bank for 'hacking leak' starting today

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jiyeon Kim = On the 13th, the Financial Supervisory Service will begin an on-site inspection of Yegaram Savings Bank, where customer information was leaked due to hacking damage.

According to financial authorities, the Financial Supervisory Service plans to conduct an on-site inspection at Yegaram Savings Bank on this day to look into the cause of the recent hacking incident and how information was leaked.

Yegaram Savings Bank announced on the 30th of last month that it had confirmed that personal information had been leaked due to an unidentified hacker accessing a server containing customer personal information.

It is estimated that about 50,000 pieces of personal information, including customer names, dates of birth, contact information, account numbers, resident registration numbers, employer names, and addresses, were leaked through this hacking. The exact size of the leak is still being determined.

Initially, in the notice that first announced the leak on the 2nd, only customer names, dates of birth, and contact information were listed as leaked items, but it was later revealed that resident registration numbers, account numbers, and addresses were also leaked, so the notice was belatedly updated.

The bank announced that upon becoming aware of the leak, it immediately completed necessary emergency measures, including suspending related services and blocking external Internet addresses (IPs), and strengthened security monitoring to prevent further spread of damage.

The Financial Supervisory Service plans to decide whether to switch to inspection depending on the status of future inspections.