Regarding the leakage of personal information, the Personal Information Protection Commission found that there were more than 1,500 reports in the six months from April, when private businesses were obliged to report to the government. rice field.
Regarding the leakage of personal information from private businesses, from April this year, it has become obligatory to report to the country, which had been an obligation to make efforts until then.
According to the Personal Information Protection Commission, in the six months from April to September this year, there were 1,587 cases of personal information leakage that were reported directly to the commission from private businesses, the same as the previous year. This is more than three times the number of 517 cases at the time.
The breakdown shows that most of the information leaks occurred at medical institutions, and most of them were leaked through websites.
Specifically, medical institutions have mistakenly handed prescriptions or medicine notebooks to other patients, lost medical certificates, leaked credit card numbers due to unauthorized access to websites, computer viruses, etc. It is said that there were cases where information was extracted due to infection.
The Personal Information Protection Commission said, ``We want employees to be thoroughly alerted through review of work manuals and training, instead of dismissing information leaks as human error.''