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As suspected hacking damages utilizing artificial intelligence spread across the entire financial sector, financial authorities are holding an emergency meeting today (October 4). They are expected to inspect ongoing security incidents and discuss countermeasures.
Reporter Kwon Ran has the details.
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The Financial Services Commission will hold an emergency meeting this afternoon at the Government Complex Seoul, summoning the heads of all financial sector associations and the chief executive officers of financial companies that have suffered hacking damages.
The so-called financial "two top" leaders, including Financial Services Commission Chairman Lee Eok-won and Financial Supervisory Service Governor Lee Chan-jin, are scheduled to attend to review the current status of the hacking incidents and discuss response measures.
Initially, considering the holiday period lasting until tomorrow, the authorities planned to receive reports on internal self-inspection results from financial companies on October 7. However, they moved up the schedule as the damages expanded not only to banks but also to non-banking financial sectors such as savings banks and capital companies.
Circumstances suggesting the use of artificial intelligence-based tools during some of the attacks have also been discussed. Since it has not been confirmed yet whether these attacks were carried out by the same hacker or group, information comparing and analyzing the hacking attack techniques of each financial company is also expected to be shared.
In addition, authorities plan to cross-reference attacker IP addresses and access logs shared through the Financial Security Institute and other organizations to check whether similar attack traces have been found at other financial institutions.
Recently in the financial sector, following the banking sector including Shinhan Bank, KB Kookmin Bank, Hana Bank, and Busan Bank, personal information infringement incidents have also occurred at Yegaram Savings Bank and Hyundai Capital.
The scale of personal information leaks confirmed so far exceeds 60,000 people.
Financial authorities are not ruling out the possibility that additional hacking attacks and information leakage damages may be identified in other industries beyond the security incidents reported so far.
(Video Editing: Kim Jin-won)
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