Frances Vinall and Elise Youn report:
SEOUL — Four people have been charged in South Korea with hacking into tens of thousands of private video cameras in homes and businesses in search of sexually exploitative footage, authorities said Monday.
In a news release, the Korean National Police Agency said the suspects stole footage from about 120,000 cameras, illegally manipulating and selling hundreds of videos to an overseas-based website.
Two of the suspects combined had contributed more than half the content on the website, the release said. They were investigated between November last year and October and did not know each other, Kim Young-woon, chief of the agency’s Cyber Terror Investigation Unit, said in an interview.
One of the suspects is charged with producing sexually exploitative content of children and adolescents. Police allege the footage stolen by that suspect had been stored but not sold.
Read more at The Washington Post.