Seoul: Communication regulator of South Korea has said that personal information of more than 13 million subscribers of a popular online game of Nexon Korea Corp had been leaked in a hacking attack.
The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said in a statement on Saturday that Nexon reported to the commission late Friday afternoon that the company on Thursday discovered the leakage of personal data of its online game Maple Story’s 13.2 million subscribers.
The information was leaked weeks before the unlisted company’s planned initial public offering of its Japanese affiliate on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on December 14. Nexon aims to raise more than 95 billion yen ($1.2 billion) through the IPO, which would be the largest on the Tokyo bourse this year.
KCC said it, jointly with police and computer security experts, is investigating the hacking case. The leaked data included user IDs, names, resident registration numbers and passwords, it added.
The incident is the largest such security breach case since late July when information of up to 35 million users of an Internet portal and blogging site operated by SK Comms was attacked by hackers.
South Korea has drawn up a cyber security master plan after a wave of hacking attacks against global agencies, companies and its own financial firms.
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