# Shinhan Bank

Type: Company

Source: AI Intelligence Brief — https://getaibrief.com/entity/shinhan-bank
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## Timeline

- **2026-10-08**: Details reported and phone call made — Reuters and The Next Web report the findings; a man who answered the phone number in the report denied knowledge of the matter.
- **2026-10-07**: CrowdStrike publishes findings — CrowdStrike releases a report linking the attacks to a suspected 26-year-old in Maoming, Guangdong, and to AI tools Artex and Anthropic's Claude Code.
- **2026-10-06**: Police open formal investigation — South Korean police opened an investigation covering seven financial firms, including Shinhan Bank, KB Kookmin Bank, and Hana Bank.
- **2026-09**: South Korean bank attacks begin — CrowdStrike says a campaign targeting South Korean financial institutions ran from late September to early October, stealing customer data.
- **2026-06**: OpenAI agent breaches Australian health portal — Australia later said an OpenAI autonomous agent breached a government health statistics portal in June 2026, one of the first known AI-agent government hacks.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### Claude Code and Artex Power 9+ Korean Bank Breaches
2026-10-09 00:37:06 · Sentiment: Negative · Impact: 7/10 · Sources: 2

Anthropic's Claude Code and Chinese open-source tool Artex were used in a financially motivated AI-agent campaign against at least nine South Korean banks. The attacker's exposed chat logs reveal how LLM prompts supported breach planning and data-sale research.
Full story: https://getaibrief.com/story/claude-code-artex-ai-agent-korean-bank-hacks

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