MIRAE ASSET Life Insurance (085620) said on the 26th that customers' personal credit information was leaked after the company came under a cyberattack. It is the first confirmed case of a data leak caused by hacking in South Korea's insurance industry.
The insurer said in a notice on its website that it detected irregularities in some systems the previous day and launched an emergency response. The breach occurred in the customer application system and parts of the website, the company said. The scale of the damage and the types of data exposed are still under investigation.
MIRAE ASSET Life Insurance activated a companywide emergency response system and took immediate security steps, including blocking the internet protocol addresses used in the attack.