Cybercrime

Cyber Attack Exposes 350,000 Epson Korea Customers

Epson Korea Co., Ltd. said on Saturday that hackers had accessed the personal data of approximately 350,000 customers last week in a series of cyber attacks. A company Spokesperson told SecurityWeek that the compromised information was stored on a Web server and contained names, IDs, passwords, and resident registration numbers of people registered with a Korean language site.

Mike Lennon

August 22, 2011

This cyber attack follows other major attacks in Korea including one in late July when SK Communications Co. said the personal information of approximately 35 million online users coming from its “Nate” search engine site and Cyworld social networking site had been hacked, resulting in the country’s biggest known cyber attack to date. SK Communications initially said the attack originated from China, but that hasn’t been officially confirmed.

“Regretfully, we did not make the English copy of the announcement regarding the security breach,” A PR spokesperson in charge of PR for Epson Korea wrote in a statement to SecurityWeek.

Written By Mike Lennon

For more than 15 years, Mike Lennon has been closely monitoring the threat landscape and analyzing trends in the National Security and enterprise cybersecurity space. In his role at SecurityWeek, he oversees the editorial direction of the publication and is the Director of several leading security industry conferences around the world.

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