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let's start with the huge data leak which has almost everyone on edge here in korea
... korea's financial institutions have been ratt
led by the massive information leak and the firms in question are struggling to placate
thousands of furious customers. the country's financial regulators have vow
ed to take appropriate punitive action and to prevent further damage.
ji myung-kil has more. thousands of angry customers are swarming
into their banks for a second straight day on this tuesday to get their credit card details
changed and to file complaints about the banks ' mismanagement of their personal information
. concerns are rising that customers' information
may have fallen into the hands of scammer s with reports emerging that suspicious and
unintended financial transactions have been made on accounts.
the leak is one of the worst in the country 's history with the personal data bank account
details addresses and credit ratings of millions of people now out in the open.
the three card firms -- kb kookmin card nh nonghyup card and lotte card -- said they
would fully cover any financial losses suffer ed by their customers from scams linked to
the data leak. the financial supervisory service and the
financial services commission plan to form a joint task force with the three firms to
prevent further damage to victims and also toughen regulations for data breaches ... to
counter possible crimes using the stolen data .
financial regulators will also punish the banks involved for their management failure
s. the firms have vowed to issue new cards to
affected users and compensate for all financial and mental damages card users may have suffer
ed. this information leak comes less than one
month after the personal data of some 130 -thousand standard chartered bank ko