WHID 2008-42: Chinese hackers steal 9 million items of personal information from South Koreans

Attack Information
WHID ID: 
2008-42
Date Occured: 
30 Dec 2008
Attack Method: 
Outcome Information
Outcome: 
Target Information
Attacked Entity Field: 
Various
Attacked Entity Geography: 
South Korea
Source Information
Attack Source Geography: 
China

The Dark Visitor, a Chinese hacking insider site, and the Korean Chuson reports that a Chinese hacker used a commercially available SQL injection tool called HDMI to penetrate a large number of South Korean sites and still 9 million personal information items, which he than sold for approximately $15,000 to South Koreans for them to abuse.