Two People Arrested For Hacking And Stealing Data Of 12Million Customers
South Korean police have arrested two people who they believed have breached into the systems of KT Corp, a large telecom company of South Korea.One of the suspect name Kim and who is 29 year old used his own program to penetrate the system and accessed bank details, home addresses and employment information of the customers.The information was sold to a man of 37 year and the latter used these information to sell cell phones pretending to be a representative of the company.
They started this scheme in February 2013 and they made $10.8million out of it. KT stated that it would cooperate with the police investigation in order to "minimize the damage to its customers," and "figure out the route of information leakage."
Source:[CNN]
They started this scheme in February 2013 and they made $10.8million out of it. KT stated that it would cooperate with the police investigation in order to "minimize the damage to its customers," and "figure out the route of information leakage."
Source:[CNN]