{"id":981265,"date":"2025-12-22T08:49:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981265"},"modified":"2025-12-22T09:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T03:43:10","slug":"south-koreas-consumer-agency-to-order-sk-telecom-to-compensate-58-hacking-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/22\/south-koreas-consumer-agency-to-order-sk-telecom-to-compensate-58-hacking-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s consumer agency to order SK Telecom to compensate 58 hacking victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: South Korea&#8217;s consumer \u200dagency said on Sunday it would order SK \u2060Telecom to compensate 58 users who filed a class action against the company over \u200ca recent \u200chacking incident. <\/p>\n<p>The agency said it decided \u200cat a Thursday meeting to order the company to pay each applicant 100,000 won ($67) worth of combined cash points and mobile phone bill discounts.<\/p>\n<p>In August, the firm was fined \u200c134 \u200dbillion won after the country&#8217;s \u200dlargest mobile carrier suffered a cybersecurity \u200cbreach this year that led to the leak of data for more than 20 million users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: South Korea&#8217;s consumer \u200dagency said on Sunday it would order SK \u2060Telecom to compensate 58 users who filed a class action against the company over \u200ca recent \u200chacking incident. The agency said it decided \u200cat a Thursday meeting to order the company to pay each applicant 100,000 won ($67) worth of combined cash points and mobile phone bill discounts. In August, the firm was fined \u200c134 \u200dbillion won after the country&#8217;s \u200dlargest mobile carrier suffered a cybersecurity \u200cbreach this year that led to the leak of data for more than 20 million users.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981265","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=981265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}