Hyundai Capital leaks housing loan recruiter information due to suspected hacking attack using AI

“There is no leakage of personal information of general customers”… Capacity: 146 people

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Bae Young-kyung and Kang Ryu-na = It was confirmed on the 3rd that Hyundai Capital also suffered a suspected hacking attack using artificial intelligence (AI) and that information related to housing loan recruiters was leaked.

Hyundai Capital discovered that the Hyundai Capital home loan solicitor inquiry page was attacked through an overseas Internet address (IP) the previous afternoon.

Some personal information of 146 home loan recruiters was leaked. The leaked information includes names, mobile phone numbers, emails, and resident registration numbers.

Among the leaked information, resident registration numbers and internal recruiter numbers were identified as information not disclosed to the public.

However, Hyundai Capital stated, “There was no leakage of personal information of general customers or access to or attacks on internal systems.”

Hyundai Capital immediately blocked the attacking IP and the relevant page immediately after confirming that the personal information of the home loan solicitor had been leaked to the outside the previous day, and formed a task force (TFT) dedicated to responding to the incident.

In addition, the damage was reported to the Financial Supervisory Service and the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) this afternoon.

Hyundai Capital said, "We are quickly informing home loan seekers whose information has been leaked of the fact and are conducting a thorough investigation of all web pages that are disclosed to the outside world."