Kakao Pay Data Breach History
WebsiteKakao Pay is a South Korean mobile payments and financial-services platform operated by Kakao Pay Corp., offering wallets, transfers, and Apple Pay integration for Korean users.
This page shows all data breaches of Kakao Pay. View the complete breach timeline, records exposed, root causes, and AI breach risk score. BreachHistory tracks disclosed data breaches worldwide.
Data Breach Timeline — All Kakao Pay Breaches
Kakao Pay Data Breach Summary
This page tracks the Kakao Pay data breach history and cybersecurity incidents affecting Kakao Pay (South Korea). BreachHistory currently indexes 1 publicly disclosed or catalogued incident spanning 2025, with approximately 40.0 million records reported as exposed across all indexed events. These totals may include overlapping datasets or third-party estimates and should not be interpreted as unique affected users.
The Kakao Pay breach timeline includes major data breaches, cyber attacks, data leaks, credential exposures, API abuse, and other security incidents. Each incident provides details on the estimated records exposed, attack method, affected data types, and supporting public sources. Currently, 0 incidents are company-confirmed.
Largest Kakao Pay Data Breaches
The largest indexed incidents include the 2025 2025 — 2026 Kakao Pay — regulator-confirmed unauthorized Alipay transfers; ~4…. Record counts originating from threat actors or leak sites should be treated as estimates unless confirmed by Kakao Pay or a regulator. Below is the list of large data breaches:
- 2025 2025–2026 Kakao Pay — regulator-confirmed unauthorized Alipay transfers; ~40M users; police raid Jul 2026 — about 40.0M records exposed · Catalogued incident
What Information Was Exposed?
Depending on the incident, exposed data may include payment card and financial account data, and other personal information (PII). The exact data varies between incidents, so review each breach page before assuming your information was affected.
Kakao Pay Data Breach 2026
At the time of this update, no Kakao Pay data breach has been catalogued for 2026. New incidents are added as official disclosures, regulatory filings, or credible cybersecurity reports become available.
What To Do If You Were Affected
If you believe your account may have been involved in a Kakao Pay data breach, change any reused passwords, enable multi-factor authentication (MFA), monitor your account for suspicious activity, and be cautious of phishing emails or fake breach notifications.
This Kakao Pay breach history is maintained by BreachHistory using public disclosures, regulatory filings, security research, and clearly labelled third-party claims. For the complete breach timeline, records exposed, incident details, and AI Breach Risk Score, explore the sections on this page.