(LEAD) Personal info of some 39,000 leaked from Mirae Asset Securities

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(ATTN: RECASTS headline, lead; ADDS more details throughout) SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Yonhap) -- T...

SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Yonhap) -- The personal information of some 39,000 customers and employees has been leaked from Mirae Asset Securities Co., the country's leading brokerage house, the securities firm said Saturday.

According to Mirae Asset Securities, the account numbers of some 3,800 customers and the personal information of over 35,000 current and former employees, as well as contractors, were leaked.

The South Korean brokerage said unauthorized external access occurred Wednesday and Thursday, targeting its mobile web phone authentication login service and internal system, respectively.

The leaked non-customer, corporate data included names, employee ID numbers, email addresses, mobile phone numbers and passwords.

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