Shinhan Card reports data breach involving 190,000 merchant records

Shinhan Card has reported a personal data breach involving around 190,000 records, including the mobile phone numbers of merchant representatives, to the state privacy regulator, the card issuer said Tuesday. The incident marks the latest in a series of data breach cases involving major companies, following recent personal information leaks at firms such as Coupang, KT, SK Telecom and Lotte Card. Shinhan Card said its internal review found that a total of 192,088 data records were exposed, adding that the incident was caused by internal misconduct by employees linked to new card solicitation, rather than by external intrusion such as hacking. The leaked data included 181,585 cases involving only the mobile phone numbers of card merchant representatives; 8,120 cases combining phone numbers and names; 2,310 cases containing phone numbers along with names, year of birth and gender; and 73 cases involving phone numbers, names and full dates of birth. The company said there was no indication that highly sensitive personal or financial information, such as resident registration numbers, card n