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Mirae Asset Says Data Breaches Exposed Customer, Employee Information

Summary by The Korea Times
Mirae Asset Securities Co. said Saturday that it suffered cyberattacks that resulted in the leakage of account numbers some 3,800 customers and personal information of over 35,000 current, former employees and contractors. The South Korean brokerage said unauthorized external access occurred Wednesday and Thursday, targeting its mobile web phone authentication login service and internal system, respectively. They resulted in the leakage of some …

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Some of Mirae Asset Securities' internal systems were exposed to external hacking, resulting in the leakage of customer account numbers and employees' personal information. However, the company stated that core sensitive information, such as unique identification numbers like resident registration numbers or account passwords, was not leaked. On the 4th, Mirae Asset Securities [on] some mobile web

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Amid a series of data breaches caused by hacking in the financial sector, Mirae Asset Securities has also experienced an information leak. On the 7th, Mirae Asset Securities announced that the account numbers of approximately 3,800 customers were leaked due to external hacking attacks on its mobile web mobile phone authentication login service and groupware (mi-global) on the 4th and 5th. However, the company stated that other sensitive informat…

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Hwang Cheol-hwan = Amid a series of hacking incidents in the financial sector, Mirae Asset Securities has also experienced a data leak due to hacking.

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Mirae Asset Securities announced that unauthorized access was gained in cyberattacks targeting its mobile authentication and internal systems. Approximately 3,800 customer accounts and the information of more than 35,000 employees and contractors were stolen; around 39,000 people were affected by the incident.

Abnormal access via external IP... Measures being prepared to prevent recurrence

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Seoul Shinmun (서울신문) broke the news on Friday, November 6, 2026.
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