A lending platform allegedly sold 200,000 users’ personal information to loan lenders and loan sharks without permission, according to a joint inspection by South Korean authorities on Monday. In a press release, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), the Financial Security Institute (FSI), the Gyeonggi provincial government, and the South Korean national police stated that they […]

The Ministry of Employment and Labor imposed fines on more than 140 companies over the past three years for breaching the country’s fair hiring procedure act, which prohibits employers from requesting that applicants include personal information in their resumes, such as height, weight, and marital status. According to the South Korean lawmaker Lee Joo-hwan on […]

* This article was written in collaboration with Ringle. Have you ever imagined someone watching you on the other side of your laptop? I picture unknown peepers staring at me all the time whenever I see the camera on my computer. As a cybersecurity journalist, I learned early in my career that web cameras, or […]

RSA Conference ― San Francisco ― While the evolution of artificial intelligence challenges the self-perception of human beings, society needs to build identity security platforms by leveraging good AI, an identity expert said on Monday. Rohit Ghai, CEO of RSA, analyzed that security comes first in the age of AI among the three main components […]

Three out of four South Koreans who seek compensation for privacy violations have reached a settlement through the assistance of the nation’s privacy watchdog last year. According to the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) on Sunday, 206 cases related to conflicts over personal information being compromised have been resolved through the commission’s dispute mediation committee […]

KakaoTalk, a mobile  messaging application used by almost the entire population of South Korea, has been wrapped up in a massive controversy over personal data breaches. Its open chat rooms, which are supposed to protect the anonymity of participants, allegedly leak breadcrumbs out of users’ private information, providing malicious actors with opportunities to identify users […]

Camera footage that shows medical examinations in a plastic surgeon’s office in Seoul has been exposed online and is being circulated through obscene websites based in China. The South Korean police launched an investigation to trace the initial cause of the breach. The Seoul Metropolitan Police conducted an on-site investigation at one hospital located in […]

A South Korean regulator is bracing for a legal battle with Facebook parent Meta and Google after the companies filed a lawsuit last month against the privacy watchdog’s decision to give them the largest fine in the agency’s history, 100 billion won ($75 million), for violating the nation’s privacy law. According to the Personal Information […]

* This article was written in collaboration with Ringle. Are you someone who always forgets passwords and finds yourself struggling to reset login information? Welcome to the club! It has only been more and more difficult to remember every single password for different types of online services. Some of us have dealt with this stress […]