Leading telecoms struggle with aftermath of data breach

In the wake of recent data breaches and cyberthreats, Korea’s major mobile carriers SK Telecom and KT are under heightened scrutiny from authorities and facing growing concerns from consumers, as both scramble to reassure users and contain potential fallout. SK Telecom, the nation’s largest telecom operator, is still reeling from a massive hacking incident in April that affected 27 million users with a personal information breach and dragged its market share below 40 percent for the first time in a decade. The Ministry of Science and ICT said Tuesday it has launched an investigation into a group identifying itself as an international hacking organization that is claiming it owns stolen SK Telecom customer data and seeks to sell it. The group, calling itself Scattered Lapsus$, posted on Telegram Monday claiming it possesses the data of 27 million SK Telecom users and is selling a 100 gigabyte sample of the dataset for $10,000. It said the data includes personal information such as user IDs, full names, phone numbers, emails, addresses and birthdates. The group shared images of sampleWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times