Answers to the Test of Proficiency in Korean, or Topik, were leaked on Chinese social media, according to sources on Thursday,
A gas explosion early Monday morning in Cheongju, North Chungcheong, left the area in chaos.
Christie's auction house was issued penalties by Korean authorities on Thursday for a data breach that exposed the personal information of hundreds of local clients.
The data protection regulator said Thursday it has fined British auction house Christie's 287 million won ($193,600) over a data leak involving Korean nationals.
Patient records of around 16,000 individuals were partially leaked from Seoul National University Hospital due to a clerical error. The hospital announced the data breach on its website on Thursday.
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.
Crude oil spilled inside the Onsan National Industrial Complex in Ulsan and flowed into a nearby stream on Saturday. Firefighters and the Ulsan Coast Guard began emergency containment work.
Taiwan’s government has confirmed signs of illegal conduct and negligence by Coupang during an administrative investigation into a large-scale personal data breach, with its digital ministry warning of legal action against the U.S.-listed company.
Coupang founder and Chairman Bom Kim apologized on Thursday for the company’s personal data leak last year.
Coupang confirmed that about 200,000 of the 33 million accounts exposed in a recent personal data leak belong to users based in Taiwan, the U.S. company announced on Wednesday.
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