PoinCampus 2024 Data Breach
Education / Education
PoinCampus 2024 Data Breach
A korean education platform.
Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
34/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Moderate: notable exposure with meaningful misuse potential.
Data Sensitivity i
StandardExposed data is largely lower-sensitivity. Standard identity-protection precautions are advised.
89KRecords
2024Year
The Breach Risk Index (BRI) is a proprietary 0–100 score rating how dangerous a breach is right now, based on how recently the data has been circulating on the dark web and how valuable it is to attackers.
Breach Summary
In November 2024, the South Korean education platform PoinCampus suffered a data breach which was later published to a popular hacking forum. The data included 89k unique email addresses, names and a small number of phone numbers and dates of birth.;What happened in the PoinCampus, Breach? February 4th 2025, 7:00 pm EST, In November 2024, PoinCampus, a South Korean educational platform, suffered a data breach that compromised the personal information of approximately 89,116 users.
Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.
10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine
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89K records analyzed
About PoinCampus
PoinCampus is a korean education platform.
Why They Hold Your Data
PoinCampus is a korean education platform. Services like this typically hold dates of birth, email addresses, names, phone numbers through account registration and normal operations.
Recent Developments
The PoinCampus dataset circulated publicly; treat as part of the standing exposure landscape.
Data Points Exposed
4 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Email Address
Full Name
Phone Number
Breach Impact
The exposure created downstream fraud and phishing risk for those affected and drew scrutiny of PoinCampus's data protection.
Exploitation & Downstream Threats
• Identity verification bypass using name + date of birth combination | • SIM swap attacks where phone numbers are present | • Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
Principal Risk Advisory
What this means for a principal
An education-sector breach: student, staff and identity records support identity theft and targeted phishing. For a high-profile principal the main risk is credible impersonation and enrichment of existing exposure.
What You Should Do
- Guard against SIM-swap and vishing: add a carrier port-out PIN and verify any 'support' calls independently.
- Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.
How ObscureIQ Can Help
- Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
- Exposure mapping and footprint neutralization: cross-reference against broker-available data and suppress still-removable elements, prioritizing address and phone, since this record re-seeds broker networks.
- ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).
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