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Hana Bank is a major South Korean commercial bank and core subsidiary of Hana Financial Group, offering retail and corporate banking services.
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Shinhan Bank lost contact, loan and income data on about 25,000 customers to attackers suspected of using AI tools. Other lenders now need to learn whether the way in was a platform weakness they share.
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Korean regulators sent security orders to about 500 financial firms after the same attacker IP turned up in breaches at seven lenders. Almost every firm doing the emergency reviews has no reported breach, so the cost is shared across the sector.
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Seoul Credit Guarantee Foundation will issue 68.75 billion won in special guarantees on a 5.5 billion won base from Hana Bank, Naver Pay and NAVER. Merchants in the six night-market alleys get higher limits from a pool that every small business in Seoul can also tap.
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Rep. Park Sung-hoon wants authorities to examine how 52 South Korean minors came to hold over 1 billion won in bank deposits, up from 42 seven months earlier. The rise is ten children in a tally that can count one child twice, while billion-won accounts hold about 0.7% of minors' 9.74 trillion won.
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President Lee Jae-myung ordered a full probe of hacks that exposed data at four Korean banks, including about 25,000 Shinhan Bank customers. The response runs through every financial industry association before the probe has shown whether the banks share a weak point.
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Korea's Financial Services Commission ordered a sector-wide security review after suspected AI-agent hackers hit the country's five largest banks. The three biggest leaks ran through employee, sales and broker tools, so the review's cost lands on systems customers never see.
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Korea Electric Power Corp. said names, affiliations and phone numbers of about 24,000 employees appeared on an outside website. What it costs the state-run utility, and anyone pricing governance at state-linked firms, turns on a cause still under joint investigation with law enforcement.
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FSC chairman Lee Eok-won told Korean financial firms they will be held strictly accountable under law if the hacks that hit six lenders happen again. The threat covers future breaches, so for the firms already hit the cost so far is five requests, including security checks and customer compensation.
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South Korea's Financial Services Commission will block outside access to staff and loan-broker web pages by default after leaks at six firms. Every page a firm keeps reachable now has to be justified as indispensable to services or work.
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Korea's community credit cooperative federation blocked access from the IP address behind the Shinhan Bank leak as attacks reached a fourth financial sector. The main way in so far has been services built for loan brokers and employees, set apart from the systems that process transactions.
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South Korea's People Power Party wants intelligence agencies in a joint probe of hacks it says have hit six lenders, four of them commercial banks. Its spokesperson concedes the attacker is unknown, so whether the six share one cause will decide who answers for them.
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Shinhan Bank exposed data on about 25,000 customers through a loan-broker inquiry platform kept apart from its core banking systems. Yonhap reports AI may have automated the credential stuffing, so the side systems that touch customer data are where lenders' security spending now gets tested.
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South Korea's Financial Services Commission ordered banks and card firms to check every externally reachable IT system after data leaks at four banks. The regulator will collect the returns and use them to build new cybersecurity measures for the financial sector.
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Small-business delinquency at KB Kookmin, Shinhan, Hana and Woori reached 0.53% to 0.92% by the end of August, above every household ratio at the four banks. Recent rate rises have not fully reached delinquency ratios, a financial industry official says, so households paying up to 6.89% on mortgages are the risk still to show up.
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Hana Bank's five-year, $100 million note was issued, allocated and paid for in a single day on Euroclear's permissioned ledger. Three years in, that platform has issued more than EUR 1 billion of digital notes.
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KB Financial Group earned a record 5.843 trillion won last year and sits behind a rival in each of its five main business lines. Its nomination committee has put a division head, Lee Jae-keun, forward as chairman.
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Hana's lead in Korean will-substitute trusts is wider than the headline share suggests, but the disclosure stops at balances, so what a five trillion won book actually earns in fees is not in the numbers.
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Technology firms' AI bond issuance is one of the named drivers behind multi-decade highs in long yields. In Korea the transmission ends in roughly 720 trillion won of self-employed debt that reprices, at 1.8 trillion won per quarter point.
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The July-to-August buying averaged 856.46 won per 100 yen against a 857.13 spot, which leaves the cohort ahead by eight hundredths of a percent on a position whose exit costs 1.5 to 2 percent.
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Lenders are competing to launch 100%-guaranteed products while public funds' repayments on behalf of borrowers hit a decade high. The screening did not vanish; it moved.
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