South Korea has a truly awful reputation for lacking any data security, from the blatant use of insecure software (active-X) or data communication companies illegally selling consumer data (Hanaro — now SK Telecom property — and KT and Powercom) or an ex-president deliberately stealing and losing archival data from his tenure (and this guy actually wanted to fund commissions to discover “truth” from recent Korean history!) Now, it seems that Chinese and North Korean hackers have hacked LIGNex1 and Hyundai Heavy Industries and may have...
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