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If you’re about to float your video game company on the stock exchange, probably the last thing you want is for a hacker to break into the personal details of some 13 million of your players. But that’s exactly what has happened to South Korean firm Nexon, which runs the massively-popular MMORPG “MapleStory”. A statement […]

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Late last month, we reported on an astonishing data breach in internet-crazy South Korea. SK Communications, owners of popular search portal Nate and its web cousin Cyworld, a Sims-like social networking site, suffered an intrusion in which the personal information of 35,000,000 Korean users was compromised. There are only 49,000,000 people in South Korea. It […]

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Another South Korean service provider has reported a large-scale data breach, leaking usernames and passwords for subscribers worldwide. Late last month, cybercrooks made off with the personal information of up to 35,000,000 users of popular Korean sites Nate and Cyworld. This time, it’s the turn of Seoul-based streaming media service GOMTV to suffer a data-spilling […]

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