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2 SKoreans caught for cellular customer information theft

South Korean law enforcement said they caught two men who supposedly took the individual information of about 8 million cell mobile cellphone readers and marketed the information to marketing organizations in one of the nation's biggest coughing techniques.
Police said in a declaration Sunday that the two men developed the coughing system that was used to grab the names, residential signing up figures and amounts of clients of KT, which is Southern region Korea's largest fixed-line telephone company and No. 2 cellular owner. The system was submitted to the organization's pcs and gathered individual information for several weeks.

Police said the two made about $877,000 from the coughing program. They marketed the system as well as cellular subscriber information to telephone selling organizations which used information to contact clients to obtain them to switch to other cellular providers.

Authorities said a former KT worker and six others were also charged for their tasks in the program.

The information robbery at KT took place over the span of five several weeks from Feb and impacted about half of KT's 16 million cellular clients.

KT apologized and said it will beef up its security system.

The occurrence is the latest in a series of large-scale coughing attacks that have impacted millions in one of the most wired countries. Last year, online hackers took individual information of 13 million gamers at Nexon and private information of 35  million members at web website Nate and Cyworld were published.
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