Authorities confirmed that 27 million individuals in South Korea suffered a data breach, nearly 70 percent of the population aged between 15 and 65 was hit.
A new massive data breach hit more that 27 million people in South Korea, according to the authorities stolen data comes from the gaming industry.It isn’t the first time that Internet users in South Korea suffered a massive breach, in 2011, 35 million individuals had personal information exposed because hackers violated the database South Cyworld, a South Korean social network, and the search engine Nate.
Early 2014, 20 million South Koreans suffered another data breach caused by an employee of the Korea Credit Bureau.
South Korean law enforcement confirmed that information were stolen from databases for various games and online gambling promotions, movie ticketing and ringtones. The number of victims is amazing if we consider that more than 70 percent of the population aged between 15 and 65 was hit.
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