KR United States Air Force 2019 Hacking (Q15958)
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A data breach risk event
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KR United States Air Force 2019 Hacking
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A data breach risk event
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January 2019
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SEOUL, South Korea American troops may have been among the victims of hackers who stole information from more than 1 million U.S. and South Korean credit cards and listed it for sale on the dark web over the past three months, the military said. The thefts targeted unspecified business and financial entities in South Korea and included information on at least 38,000 U.S.-issued payment cards, according to an alert distributed by the Eighth Army via its Facebook page on Monday. An unnamed credit union that provides services at U.S. Air Force bases in South Korea was among the potentially compromised organizations, it said. Citing the large number of U.S.-issued payment cards involved and the significant presence of American troops in South Korea, the Major Cybercrime Unit-Korea said it cou (English)
