South Korea's Kim Jeong Mun Aloe: closed 2012 shopping site hacked, about 59,000 customers' data leaked

According to News1, health supplement and cosmetics maker Kim Jeong Mun Aloe told customers it detected an external intrusion on its server on January 27, 2026, with data of customers of a shopping site closed in 2012 suspected leaked ^[1]. About 59,000 customers are estimated affected, with names, IDs, passwords, addresses, phone numbers and emails suspected leaked; passwords were simple numeric strings and no resident numbers or financial data were included ^[1]. The company urges customers to be especially careful with texts, emails and calls of unclear origin ^[1].

Industries mainly affected: Retail

1. Be especially careful with texts, emails and calls of unclear origin ^[1].
2. If you reused the same numeric password elsewhere, change it ^[1].