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Homeplus execs and employees illegally sold 24m customers’ info: prosecutors

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Dissent

South Korea has had some major breaches involving consumer information that I’ve reported on over the past years.

Here’s a report from Yonhap News that mentions a breach I seem to have missed, though:

In February, Homeplus Co., the South Korean unit of British retail giant Tesco PLC, was also indicted on charges of illegally selling the personal data of 24 million customers to insurance firms for a total of 23 billion won.

Most of the information was collected under the guise of conducting a lottery for free gifts.

Homeplus chief Do Sung-hwan, five other former and current company executives and employees as well as two officials from the insurance companies have also been indicted over their involvement in the case.

This may actually fall more under privacy breach than data breach, but I thought I would mention it here.

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