South Korea’s top five commercial banks suffered a suspected AI-driven hacker attack for the first time: customer information was leaked at 3 banks

ChainCatcher news, according to Yonhap News Agency, South Korea’s five largest commercial banks were all attacked by hackers suspected to be driven by artificial intelligence, and three of them suffered customer information leaks. It is the first time in South Korea's financial industry that five major banks were attacked at the same time.

It is reported that the personal information of 11 outsourced employees of BNK Busan Bank was leaked due to hacking attacks; the information of 119 customers of KB Kookmin Bank was leaked due to hacking attacks, and Hana Bank also stated that the information of 89 customers was leaked.