Jeonbuk National University "Personal Information of Over 320,000 People Leaked Due to Hacking Attack"

Personal Information Leak of Current Students, Alumni, and Lifelong Education Center Members
"Thorough Measures to Prevent Recurrence of the Incident Will Be Established"

Jeonbuk National University’s integrated information system was hacked, resulting in the leakage of personal information of approximately 320,000 current students and alumni.

On the 1st, Jeonbuk National University announced through its official website, "Recently, the integrated information system 'Oasis' was subjected to a hacking attack, causing your valuable personal information to be leaked externally."

According to the announcement, there were three hacking attempts on Jeonbuk National University’s integrated information system 'Oasis' on the 28th of last month at 3 a.m., 10 p.m., and 11:20 p.m. Due to this hacking attempt, personal information of about 320,000 individuals registered in the system, including current students, alumni, and lifelong education center members, was leaked.

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The leaked personal information includes names, resident registration numbers, phone numbers, emails, and academic information. The hacking attempts targeted 74 items related to current students and alumni, and 29 items related to lifelong education center members.

Upon recognizing the hacking attempts, Jeonbuk National University blocked IP connections from Hong Kong and Japan that were attempting server attacks at 1 p.m. on the 29th of last month. The university stated, "'Oasis' vulnerabilities have been patched, and we are closely cooperating with related organizations to investigate the incident."

They added, "We take the seriousness of this matter very seriously and will thoroughly prepare recurrence prevention measures such as security education, security inspections, system vulnerability checks, and strengthening security systems by carefully analyzing the cause of the incident to prevent similar incidents from happening again. We sincerely apologize once again for the inconvenience caused by this incident."

Meanwhile, Jeonbuk National University has created a 'Check Personal Information Leakage Details' page on its website to allow individuals to verify the leaked information.

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