{"id":926163,"date":"2025-04-29T08:07:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T02:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=926163"},"modified":"2025-04-29T08:17:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T02:47:20","slug":"south-koreas-sk-telecom-begins-sim-card-replacement-following-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/29\/south-koreas-sk-telecom-begins-sim-card-replacement-following-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s SK Telecom begins SIM card replacement following data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: South Korea&#8217;s largest carrier SK Telecom started on Monday to replace mobile SIM chips for its 23 million users following a data breach, prompting alarmed customers to form long queues for the replacements. <\/p>\n<p>SK Telecom announced earlier this month that it had fallen victim to a hacking incident involving malicious code, through which customers&#8217; personal information was compromised. <\/p>\n<p>It prompted a company apology and the government to order the review of the country&#8217;s overall data protection system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: South Korea&#8217;s largest carrier SK Telecom started on Monday to replace mobile SIM chips for its 23 million users following a data breach, prompting alarmed customers to form long queues for the replacements. SK Telecom announced earlier this month that it had fallen victim to a hacking incident involving malicious code, through which customers&#8217; personal information was compromised. It prompted a company apology and the government to order the review of the country&#8217;s overall data protection system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-926163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926163","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}