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Korean Court Orders SK Communications to Pay Damages to ID Theft Victims

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Dissent

The 2011 hack affecting SK Communications, operator of Nate and Cyworld, currently stands as 10th on DataLossDB’s list of largest all-time breaches, affecting 35 million people. The breach not only resulted in lawsuits, but contributed to the government reversing its plans to implement a real-name registration policy. In the latest development,  a Seoul court has…

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SK Communications to appeal data breach ruling awarding damages to consumer

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Dissent

Kim Yoo-chul reports: SK Communications, operator of the immensely-popular Cyworld (www.cyworld.com) social network website, is challenging a damage compensation awarded to one of its customers who sued the company over its lax protection of private data. She is among many users of Cyworld and Nate (www.nate.com) , another SK Communications service, who have pursued legal…

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Data Security: SK Communications Data Breach Due To “Cheap” Foreign Antivirus Software

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Dissent

Sang Lee provides a follow-up on the SK Communications hack that affected 35 million South Koreans, covered previously on this blog: […] According to South Korean media, the Korean Committee on Culture, Sports, Tourism, Broadcasting & Communications released a report yesterday noting that, of the 50 or so antivirus software available in the Korean market, SK…

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Kr: Court orders SK Communications to pay compensation for info leakage

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Dissent

Another follow-up on a massive data breach that resulted in the South Korean government discarding its plan to enforce real-name registration. Yonhap News reports:  A South Korean court ordered on Sunday the operator of the country’s third most-visited Internet portal to pay out compensation to a user whose information was leaked during last month’s massive…

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S. Korea plans to scrap online real-name system in wake of massive hack

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Dissent

It appears that a massive data breach affecting 35 million South Koreans who use popular portal and social networking sites Nate and Cyworld has served as a wake-up call for the government: The South Korea government will push ahead with plans to scrap the current real-name system for Internet users in the wake of the…

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Kr: Nate, Cyworld users pursue class action amid identity theft fears

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Dissent

Kim Yoo-chul reports: The situation can’t get any worse for SK Communications, the operator of Cyworld and Nate, following a hacking attack that compromised the personal information of 35 million of its customers. Stock prices of the Internet unit of the telecommunications giant SK Telecom plummeted. Officials admitted that the recent data loss may taint…

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