An incident occurred in which the personal information of about 50,000 test takers was leaked from "119Gosi," a firefighting civil service recruitment site.
According to the National Fire Agency on the 4th, at 7 p.m. on the 2nd, a personal information leak occurred at 119Gosi, and the agency notified affected test takers of the breach. 119Gosi is a website that handles the full range of tasks related to firefighting civil service recruitment and provides services such as application submissions, exam announcements, pass/fail notices, exam-related statistics, questions and answers, and objections.
In this incident, test takers' IDs, names, dates of birth, and mobile phone numbers for about 50,000 people were leaked. The National Fire Agency shut down the 119Gosi site as of 10:30 p.m. and guided users on alternative ways to access services.
Relevant agencies, including the National Fire Agency and the police, are identifying the leak route and conducting a joint investigation into the company entrusted with operating the site. The National Fire Agency also reported the matter to the Personal Information Protection Commission. The Daejeon Metropolitan Police Agency's cyber investigation unit said it became aware of the personal information leak on the National Fire Agency's recruitment site the previous day and launched an investigation.