2026 BNK Financial Group — 11 outsourced employee records leaked in hacking incident
Data compromised
Personal information of 11 outsourced workers (field inventory not detailed in English press summaries indexed)
Technical writeup
BNK Financial Group reported on October 2, 2026 that 11 records containing outsourced employees’ personal information were leaked in a hacking incident, per Korea Herald and Korea Times. Same-day Korean banking wave also hit Shinhan (~25k customers), KB Kookmin (119), and Hana (89). Woori and NH NongHyup reported attack attempts without confirmed data exposure. companyConfirmed true; recordsAffected 11.
Root cause
Hacking incident exposing outsourced employees’ personal information (Korea Herald / Korea Times citing BNK report)