2026 3Pro TV (E-Broadcasting) — confirmed app breach; ~460K personal records incl. bank/card subsets
Data compromised
Company estimates >460,000 personal-data items: names, profiles, mobile numbers, emails, addresses; subsets include 2,979 bank-account records and 317 credit-card records (bank name/account/holder; card issuer + masked numbers). Resident registration numbers not collected/leaked per company.
Technical writeup
Verified company disclosure — early August 2026. E-Broadcasting, operator of South Korean financial media outlet 3Pro TV, posted a Korean apology/notice confirming that an external actor illegally accessed the 3Pro TV application early in the month and maliciously accessed other users’ personal data. The company estimates more than 460,000 personal-data items were exposed, including names, profiles, phones, emails, addresses, service/device logs, with subsets of 2,979 bank-account records and 317 credit-card records (masked numbers). It says resident registration numbers and other sensitive national IDs were not collected and therefore not leaked, reported the incident to the Personal Information Protection Commission and KISA, blocked the access path, and warned members about 3Pro TV impersonation calls/SMS. YouTube channel subscriber data is stated as unrelated. BreachHistory indexes companyConfirmed true with recordsAffected 460000 from the company estimate.
Root cause
External actor illegally accessed the 3Pro TV application in early August 2026 and gained unauthorized access to other users’ personal data (company notice).