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

Healing Paper, the operator of the medical aesthetics information platform Gangnam Unni, will provide app points worth 50,000 won per person to domestic victims following a recent personal data leak incident.

Starting today at 10:00 AM, Healing Paper is accepting applications for point distribution through a compensation application link within the Gangnam Unni app.

Along with the points, the company will also provide free personal information protection services for one year, which includes insurance covering financial fraud damages resulting from personal data leaks such as hacking and phishing.

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

The scale of compensation and distribution schedules for overseas users whose information was leaked will be announced sequentially at a later date.

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

Previously, Healing Paper announced through a notice on September 7 that an abnormal access occurred to the application programming interface (API) used to query consultation records 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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