Sogang University Suffers Data Breach Affecting 180,000 Records Suspected External Attack

Personal information of approximately 180,000 current students, faculty members, and others has been leaked from Sogang University.

Sogang University announced today that it "detected signs of a data leak affecting some integrated login account information due to an unidentified external attack."

The personal information leaked in this incident includes student ID numbers (employee ID numbers), names, affiliations, email addresses, mobile phone numbers, and encrypted integrated passwords.

The university explained that after detecting the security incident, it took emergency measures such as blocking the attacking IP addresses.

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