Incident record
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Kakao Pay · Finance
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Reported impact
40.45M people
Disclosure recorded
2025-01-23
Sector
Finance
Practical risk
Critical
What this means
A practical reading of this record
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Classification
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Evidence status
Why it appears in the index
Confirmed by the organisation, a regulator, or a documented official decision.
This is a cross-border data-handling and privacy-compliance matter; it is not presented as a confirmed hacking incident.
Recorded source · PIPC decision
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Editorial record
Review and status trail
Last reviewed
2026-09-21
The latest editorial review of the stored public record.
Latest source event
2026-01-28
The most recent dated event currently documented on this page.
Confirmed
Current status recorded from the first documented public event in this entry.
Documented events
Public timeline
- 01
PIPC decision
PIPC published a decision concerning Kakao Pay's personal-data handling.
- 02
FSS sanction
The Financial Supervisory Service imposed additional sanctions relating to the cross-border credit-information matter.
Data reported exposed
Correction
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