The five major commercial banks in South Korea have encountered suspected AI-driven hacker attacks for the first time: customer information leaks occurred at three of them
Oct 3, 2026 14:22:45
According to reports from the Korean News Agency, South Korea's five major commercial banks have all been suspected of being attacked by hackers driven by artificial intelligence, with three of them experiencing customer information leaks. This simultaneous attack on the five banks is unprecedented in South Korea's financial industry.
It is reported that BNK Busan Bank suffered a hacker attack that led to the personal information of 11 outsourced employees being leaked; KB Kookmin Bank had the information of 119 customers leaked due to a hacker attack, and Hana Bank also stated that the information of 89 customers was leaked.