Police launched an investigation after personal information on more than 100,000 customers was leaked from a golf course in Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi.
According to police and others on the 26th, the Korean National Police Agency security investigation command checked indications that the website of the Gapyeong-gun golf course Lee&Lee CC was hacked and that a large amount of personal information was siphoned outside and is currently investigating. Lee&Lee CC is operated by Lee&Lee Advisors, an affiliate of Daeryung Group.
The leaked personal information is estimated at about 100,000 people. The compromised data is understood to include names, dates of birth, gender, IDs, passwords, mobile phone numbers, landline numbers, emails, and addresses. Police were said to have identified the breach while conducting an investigation related to major North Korean hacking groups.
Earlier, on the 18th, Lee&Lee CC announced through a website and text message notice, "We confirmed that on Oct. 21 last year, malicious code was inserted into the website by a hacker, resulting in the leakage of customers' personal information."
Police are focusing on the possibility that Lee&Lee CC's servers were infected with malware spread by the hacking group and are investigating the exact circumstances.