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N.K. hacking group stole massive amount of personal info from S. Korean court computer network


(ATTN: UPDATES with more details in last three paras) SEOUL, May 11 (Yonhap) -- A North ...

A total of 1,014 gigabytes (GB) worth of data and documents were leaked from Seoul's court computer network between January 2021 and February 2023 by the hacking group, presumed to be Lazarus, according to the joint probe by the police, the prosecution and the National Intelligence Service. A huge chunk of the data leaked includes detailed personal information, such as names, resident registration numbers, financial records and others, according to the probe results. The police investigation began in last December as the court carried out its own internal probe into the huge data leak in the first 10 months after the computer network detected and blocked malicious code.

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