Seo Cheon-ho "Banks approved as 'suitable' by the Korea-U.S. Unification Committee, information leaked"

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jeonghyun Lee = It was revealed that the Korea Media and Communications Commission recently approved CI 'suitability' for Shinhan Bank and Woori Bank, where not only personal information but also customer linked information (CI) was leaked.

According to data submitted by People Power Party lawmaker Seo Cheon-ho, a member of the Science, Technology, Information and Communication Committee of the National Assembly, from the US-Visit Unification Committee on the 12th, Woori Bank, whose personal information and CI of about 17,000 people were leaked in July, and Shinhan Bank, whose personal information of 25,000 people and 97 CIs were recently leaked, were approved by the US-Visit Unification Committee for CI creation and processing in April.

On April 22, the United States Unification Committee selected 75 companies as approved companies through a review of the appropriateness and safety of linked information creation and processing procedures for private companies, including Woori Bank and Shinhan Bank.

Rep. Seo pointed out that with the revised Information and Communications Network Act going into effect in May last year, the U.S.-U.S. Unification Committee, which is responsible for inspecting the safety measures and actual conditions of organizations that create, process, and use CI, only conducted written inspections of 96 workplaces last year and conducted on-site inspections of only 15 of them.

Rep. Seo also criticized the U.S. Unification Committee for responding in an ex post facto manner, such as conducting on-site inspections of Lotte Card, TVING, Woori Bank, and Shinhan Bank workplaces where CIs have been leaked since last year after the incident occurred.

Rep. Seo said, “The Korea-U.S. Unification Committee has not yet prepared a plan to improve the system even after confirming the risk of poor CI management by imposing a fine on Lotte Card in September last year for violating CI safety measures.”