The Supreme Court's Court Administration Office has been fined by the Personal Information Protection Commission for failing to encrypt the resident registration numbers of some court personnel.
According to legal sources on September 4, the Court Administration Office announced the previous day that it had stored 598 resident registration numbers in its internal email database without encryption from December 2013 to January 2025, leading to a violation of the Personal Information Protection Act. The commission imposed a fine, recommended corrective measures, and ordered public disclosure of the incident.
However, it has been reported that there was no data breach involving the resident registration numbers.
A representative from the Court Administration Office stated, "There was information that had been stored unencrypted in the past on the court's internal email system, and we have taken immediate action to delete the problematic data."
* This article has been translated by AI.
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