Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue
News Team News Team Published September 10, 2026 - 4:16 p.m. Personal Information Protection Commission Chairperson Song Kyung-hee speaks during a plenary session of the watchdog at the government complex in Jongno District, central Seoul, on Sept. Even if a leak hasn't been confirmed, companies must notify users within 72 hours if the risk of exposure is high.
- ▪News Team News Team Published September 10, 2026 - 4:16 p.m.
- ▪Personal Information Protection Commission Chairperson Song Kyung-hee speaks during a plenary session of the watchdog at the government complex in Jongno District, central Seoul, on Sept.
- ▪Even if a leak hasn't been confirmed, companies must notify users within 72 hours if the risk of exposure is high.
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| Original publisher | koreajoongangdaily |
| Canonical URL | https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/korea-raises-data-breach-fines-to-10-of-revenue/12869899 |
| Publication time | Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:02:54 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-18T20:33:45.572Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-18T20:33:45.572Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue Companies behind major negligent data leaks can now face fines of up to 10 percent of annual revenue under revised privacy rules. News Team News Team Published September 10, 2026 - 4:16 p.m. Modified September 10, 2026 - 7:00 p.m. Personal Information Protection Commission Chairperson Song Kyung-hee speaks during a plenary session of the watchdog at the government complex in Jongno District, central Seoul, on Sept. 9.
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