Court Administration fined 200 million won for 'leaking resident registration number'

The National Court Administration, which leaked personal information of at least 18,000 people, including resident registration numbers and marriage certificates, has been fined about 200 million won.

The Personal Information Protection Commission said it has decided to impose a fine of 207 million won and a fine of 6 million won on the court administration.

This is the largest amount of fines for public institutions as of September 2023 before the Personal Information Protection Act was revised.

According to the investigation, the court administration has been operating the network open to allow interconnection from the internal and external networks for convenience, and it was confirmed that the hacker stole data such as handwritten statements and marriage certificates.

Among them, the police analyzed about 0.46% of the leaked data, and 17,998 personal information, including resident registration numbers, was confirmed.