The personal information of 35 million South Koreans has been compromised as a result of a hacking attack on the company that runs the country's biggest social network and a major web search engine, according to reports.
Popular websites in South Korea including the Nate search engine have been breached in a hacking attack, according to a report. Screenshot: CNET News
SK Communications, which operates the Cyworld social-networking site and the Nate portal site, said on Thursday that the hacking and exposure of names, phone numbers, email addresses, resident registration numbers and passwords originated from malicious code that appeared to come from China, The Korea Herald reported.
"The company has confirmed that a leak of customers' information has taken place due to hacking on July 26," SK said in a statement quoted in the news report. "The specific scale of the hacking is still being investigated, but it is estimated that some of the personal information of 35 million Nate and Cyworld members has been leaked."
For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Report: Breach exposes data of 35 million S. Koreans on CNET News.
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