Lotte Card was fined 9.6 billion won ($6.5 million) by the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) after 450,000 users' social registration numbers were leaked.
Two teenagers have been referred to prosecutors for allegedly hacking the server of Seoul’s public bicycle service Ttareungi and leaking approximately 4.62 million users’ personal information, police said Monday.
Coupang confirmed an additional personal information leak on Thursday involving around 165,000 user accounts.
Users will now be notified if they are involved in “possible” data leaks, not just definitive cases, and potential threats to their personal information under a new set of data protection measures.
Korea’s data protection watchdog on Wednesday told e-commerce giant Coupang to stop publishing its own findings about its data breach, warning that unverified statements could mislead users and undermine an ongoing official investigation.
Korean families' spending on private education for their children has jumped by more than 60 percent over the past decade, government data showed Sunday.
A new Korean law was recently passed with the aim of clamping down on false information and damaging deepfakes, but the United States took the rare move of rebuking it as a means of censorship that may place an undue burden on U.S. technology firms.
The National Assembly, led by the Democratic Party, was set Wednesday to vote on a contentious anti-fake news bill, as the opposition's filibuster to block the move was reaching its 24-hour limit.
The personal information of 192,000 Shinhan partnered merchants, mostly phone numbers, was leaked, the financial company told customers on Tuesday.
The government is weighing a possible business suspension of Coupang following a massive personal data leak and the company’s failure to respond swiftly to the issue.
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