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- Korean IT expert arrested after hacking into over 400,000 home cameras
The man, identified as Lee, allegedly used his knowledge as a cybersecurity and IT expert to hack into a total of 404,847 cameras in 638 apartment complexes across South Korea between August and
- Man nabbed for hacking built-in home cameras of 400,000 households
SEOUL, Dec 20 (Yonhap) -- A hacker in his 30s was arrested on charges of infiltrating built-in home cameras at over 600 different apartment complexes and distributing recorded footage, police said Tuesday
- Korean Cybersecurity Expert Sentenced to Prison for Hacking 400,000 . . .
A Korean cybersecurity expert has been sentenced to four years in prison for illegally accessing and distributing private videos from “wallpad” cameras in 400,000 private households across South Korea The man offered to sell video footage from a single day in someone’s home for 0 1 Bitcoin
- Prison for cybersecurity expert selling private videos from inside . . .
The hacker was arrested by South Korea's national police agency at the end of 2022 Investigators seized computer equipment and found 213 videos and 400,000 photos that had been illegally filmed inside homes through hacked wallpad cameras
- The South Korean smart home hack is the stuff of nightmares
One of the officials from the police cyber teams unit was able to find one of the alleged hackers on a ‘dark web’ website The hacker claimed that they had infiltrated most Korean apartment
- Hackers peeping into Koreas apartments through intercom systems . . .
A media report stating that smart controlling systems installed in newly built apartments are vulnerable to hacking, is triggering concern that footage of residents' private lives could be stolen
- South Korean Apartments CCTV Intercoms Hacked Nationwide And Footage . . .
Not only was footage of regular home lives revealed, but provocative video content was leaked too It was recently reported by Korean news outlet, IT Chosun, that South Korean apartments’ CCTV intercom systems have been hacked nationwide
- South Korea’s spy camera epidemic persists despite stricter laws
The misuse of spy cameras in South Korea, which has instilled fear in women of being filmed without consent in public spaces, continues to be a significant societal issue despite the introduction of stricter laws in 2020
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