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Confirmed breach

Jin Air data breach

KRSouth Korea

Herald Business and JKN News reported a data breach at Jin Air (South Korea) on 29 October 2026, and it has been confirmed. It affected 1,454 members.

People affected
1,454members
Reported
29 October 2026News report and 1 more
Who is affected
South Korea

What was exposed 9

  • Passwords and logins
  • Email addresses
  • Phone numbers
  • Dates of birth
  • Names
  • Member IDs
  • Gender
  • Nationality
  • ID

How it happened

How
Hacking The company said the attack targeted its member information inquiry application programming interface (API) source
Way in
API เหตุการณ์ละเมิดความปลอดภัยดังกล่าวเกิดขึ้นผ่านอินเทอร์เฟซการเขียนโปรแกรมแอปพลิเคชัน (API) ที่ใช้สำหรับตรวจสอบข้อมูลสมาชิก source

Sources 2

News reports are read by an AI model; every fact taken from an article was checked word for word against it, and anything it could not find was dropped. · Corrections and changes

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