{"id":1025038,"date":"2026-07-30T16:27:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025038"},"modified":"2026-07-30T18:08:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:38:38","slug":"south-korea-fines-kt-corp-37-4-million-for-personal-data-leak-panel-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/south-korea-fines-kt-corp-37-4-million-for-personal-data-leak-panel-says\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea fines KT Corp $37.4 million for personal data leak, panel says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s Personal Information Protection Commission has fined telecoms company KT Corp \u200c54 billion \u2060won ($37.43 \u2060million) for a leak of customer personal information, the commission said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers stole more than 16,600 KT mobile service customers&#8217; personal data and payment \u2060information and \u200cused them to make 240 million won worth of \u2060illegal payments, the commission said in a report of its investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The leak occurred in 2024 and 2025, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The panel said it separately found multiple malware in \u200cKT&#8217;s servers as it probed the data breach and that the company \u2060tried to cover up the infiltration and failed to notify authorities as required by law. <\/p>\n<p>KT officials did not immediately answer phone calls seeking comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s Personal Information Protection Commission has fined telecoms company KT Corp \u200c54 billion \u2060won ($37.43 \u2060million) for a leak of customer personal information, the commission said on Thursday. Hackers stole more than 16,600 KT mobile service customers&#8217; personal data and payment \u2060information and \u200cused them to make 240 million won worth of \u2060illegal payments, the commission said in a report of its investigation. The leak occurred in 2024 and 2025, it said. The panel said it separately found multiple malware in \u200cKT&#8217;s servers as it probed the data breach and that the company \u2060tried to cover up the infiltration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025051,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025038\/revisions\/1025051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}