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Lotte Card fined W5b over massive data breach

Source
The Korea Herald - Business
Source link
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10827569
Published
2026-07-31 21:31:15
Discovered by ProcIntel
2026-07-31 12:36:11
Category
Procurement & Supply Chain News
Geography
South Korea
Organisations
Review status
Pending
Record type
REAL

Summary

Lotte Card Co. has been slapped with 5 billion won (US$3.38 million) in financial penalties and a business suspension of 1.5 months over its massive data leak, the financial regulator said Friday. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) said the card company is banned from issuing cards to new customers from Aug. 1 to Sept. 15. Lotte Card's online payment system was hacked last year, resulting in the leak of personal information of about 2.97 million customers. It was also found that the company

Procurement Relevance Gate

FAIL — score 19.3/100 — evaluated 2026-07-31 12:36:11
Matched indicators (cyber_infrastructure_disruption, geographic_exposure) fall short of the pass threshold (19.3/20.0).
  • cyber_infrastructure_disruption (weight 8) — matched on "data breach"
  • geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"

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Not Assessed — this Signal did not pass the Procurement Relevance Gate, or is fictional/excluded test data.