Gangnam Unni Offers 50,000 Won in App Points to Domestic Victims of Data Leak Involving 220,000 Users

Healing Paper, the operator of the medical beauty information platform Gangnam Unni, is providing app points worth 50,000 won per person to domestic victims of a recent personal information leak.

Healing Paper announced that it began accepting applications for the points through a compensation application link within the Gangnam Unni app starting at 10:00 a.m. today (September 10).

In addition to the points, the company decided to provide a one-year free personal information protection service, which includes insurance covering financial fraud damages resulting from personal information leaks such as hacking and phishing.

The insurance coverage limit is up to 10 million won per person.

The compensation scale and distribution schedule for overseas customers will be announced sequentially at a later date.

Healing Paper stated, "We will strengthen protective measures in accordance with information protection investments and management system certification standards, and transparently communicate the improvement process."

Previously, Healing Paper announced through a notice on September 7 that abnormal access had occurred to an application programming interface (API) used to query consultation history on September 4, resulting in the leakage of information belonging to approximately 220,000 domestic and international users.

Among them, South Korean users accounted for the largest share at approximately 160,000, followed by 48,000 in Japan, 4,218 in Taiwan, 1,591 in Thailand, 481 in China, and 5,308 in English-speaking and other countries.

(Photo: Gangnam Unni website)
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