South Korea FTC raids Google offices in Seoul
The Korean Fair Trade Commission, that country's antitrust agency, raided Google's offices in Seoul today, CNET has learned.
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Another Korean data breach - GOMTV.NET spills user account data, including passwords
Another South Korean service provider has reported a large-scale data breach, leaking usernames and passwords for subscribers worldwide.
Late last month, cybercrooks made off with the personal information of up to 35,000,000 users of popular Korean sites Nate and Cyworld.
Pyongyang denies suspected hacking involving North Koreans
North Korea on Sunday denied allegations that a group of 30 North Korean hackers had helped a South Korean criminal gang attain money by breaking into online game servers and collecting crucial data.
The North's Committee for Peaceful Unification of the Fatherland said in a report that South Korea's allegation of a hacking crime involving North Koreans is an "unpardonable provocation."
Trojan update fingered for massive South Korean breach
Software company ESTsoft was responsible for a massive compromise of some 35 million South Koreans last month after it pushed out malware to some of the country’s largest web companies.
Unidentified hackers uploaded malware to an EFTsoft server through a common, vulnerable DLL module that the company used to send updates to its 25 million subscribers.
