Supreme Court Fined by Personal Information Protection Commission Over Inadequate Resident Registration Number Encryption

The National Court Administration was fined by the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) last July for failing to encrypt the resident registration numbers of some court personnel.

The National Court Administration of the Supreme Court announced via its website the previous day that it "received a fine, a recommendation for corrective action, and a public disclosure order from the PIPC for violating the Personal Information Protection Act, as resident registration numbers (598 cases) of certain court personnel were stored without encryption in the court's internal mail database (DB) from December 2013 to January 2025."

The imposed fine is 6.48 million won.

However, there was no damage caused by the external leakage of internal employees' resident registration numbers.

The National Court Administration explained that it has completed follow-up measures such as system improvements and paid the fine.

An official from the National Court Administration explained, "As soon as we confirmed the fact, we deleted the remaining 580 resident registration numbers (18 cases were already deleted due to retirement or other reasons) and improved the system so that resident registration numbers are no longer stored in the relevant DB."

"The resident registration numbers in question all belong to internal court personnel, and there has been no leakage to the outside," they stated, adding, "We will strengthen management to prevent similar cases from recurring."

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