서강대 개인정보 18만 건 유출…경찰 내사 착수
180,000 Personal Records Leak From Sogang University, and Police Open a Preliminary Inquiry
Part of the August 16, 2026 daily edition
서강대학교 구성원의 개인정보 약 18만 건이 유출돼 경찰이 내사에 착수했습니다. 유출된 정보에는 학번과 성명, 아이디, 소속, 이메일 주소, 휴대전화 번호, 인트라넷 통합 비밀번호 등이 포함됐습니다. 사고는 지난 11일 아이디와 비밀번호를 무작위로 대입해 정보를 탈취하는 방식의 외부 비인가 IP 접근으로 발생했습니다. 학교는 사고 발생 사흘 만인 14일 공격을 차단하고 긴급 망분리 조치를 했습니다. 서울경찰청 사이버수사과는 지난 15일 입건 전 조사, 곧 내사에 착수했습니다. 학교는 이 사고를 개인정보보호위원회와 교육부 모두에 신고했습니다.
Translation
About 180,000 pieces of personal information belonging to members of Sogang University have leaked, and the police have opened a preliminary inquiry. The leaked information includes student numbers, names, user IDs, departments, email addresses, mobile phone numbers and integrated intranet passwords. The incident arose on the 11th from unauthorised external IP access, using a method that steals information by trying IDs and passwords at random. The university blocked the attack on the 14th, three days after it began, and took emergency measures to separate its networks. The Cyber Investigation Division of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency began a preliminary inquiry on the 15th. The university reported the incident to both the Personal Information Protection Commission and the Ministry of Education.
Vocabulary
- 유출되다동사 (verb)to leak out (of information or substances)
- 내사명사 (noun)a preliminary inquiry, before anyone is formally booked as a suspect
- 착수하다동사 (verb)to set about, begin (a task or investigation)
- 무작위명사 (noun)at random, without a pattern
- 대입하다동사 (verb)to substitute in, try (a value) in place
- 탈취하다동사 (verb)to steal, seize (data or property)
- 차단하다동사 (verb)to block, cut off
- 망분리명사 (noun)network separation — isolating an internal network from outside
Grammar points
-아/어 N에 착수하다to begin N (as a consequence)
The -아/어 ending links a cause to what followed: 유출돼 경찰이 내사에 착수했다 = 'it leaked, and so the police began an inquiry'. It is looser than -기 때문에 and does not insist on causation, but in news writing the order alone does the work — the earlier clause is what prompted the later one.
Example: 사고가 나 도로가 통제됐습니다.
There was an accident, and so the road was closed.
N 만에after N (a gap of time)
Measures the gap before something finally happened. 사고 발생 사흘 만에 차단했다 says three days passed between the attack starting and its being blocked — and in incident reporting that gap is the story, since it measures how long the exposure lasted. Note the noun before 만에 is a length of time, not a date.
Example: 신고 30분 만에 불을 껐습니다.
The fire was put out 30 minutes after it was reported.
N와/과 N 모두both N and N
모두 after a pair says each of the two, not the two taken together. 개인정보보호위원회와 교육부 모두에 신고했다 means two separate reports were filed. Dropping 모두 would leave it ambiguous whether one joint report went to both bodies, which in a compliance story is a meaningful difference.
Example: 학교와 회사 모두에 알렸습니다.
It was reported to both the school and the company.
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