Korea Internet & Security Agency

New Capabilities

Operating 24-hour incident response

South Korea's cyber alert remains at Watch, the second-highest of five levels, after regulators confirmed on October 14 that breaches at 16 financial firms exposed about 100,000 personal records. That is up from seven firms and about 68,000 people reported earlier in the month. Depositors pulled more than 20 trillion won from the five biggest banks between September 30 and October 11.

Updated Oct 21