The credit card information of 20 million South Koreans has been leaked, state regulators reported on January 19. In a country of 50 million, this marks one of the country’s most devastating security breaches ever. The perpetrator? Allegedly, a single engineer.
An employee of Korea Credit Bureau has been arrested for stealing the names, social security numbers, phone numbers, and credit card information of 20 million cardholders. Agence France-Presse reports that the employee then sold the data to multiple phone marketing companies, the managers of which have also been arrested.
None of the data have circulated, but all 27 top executives from KB Financial Group, one of the affected credit card companies, have offered to resign, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Case 1:
SINGAPORE: Police are investigating the death of a 16-year-old boy on Monday in his school.
The secondary four student of Tanglin Secondary School had fainted on Monday when he was jogging during a physical education (PE) class.
The school's principal told Channel NewsAsia the boy was attended to immediately by the staff.
He was unconscious when he was sent to the National University Hospital, and was later pronounced dead.
Case 2:
Thursday, Jan 16, 2014
The Straits Times
A 13-year-old student from Temasek Junior College died on Wednesday during a physical education (PE) lesson, after he reportedly had an asthma attack.
Its shock closure could not have come at a worse time.
Potentially hundreds, if not thousands, of travellers have been left in the lurch after popular coach and travel agency Five Stars Tour abruptly closed all eight of its branches across Singapore on Wednesday.
As of 11.15am on Thursday, the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) received 102 complaints against the tour agency.
News of the travel agency's closure was first reported by Chinese daily Lianhe Wanbao. In its report, it said Five Stars Tour had applied for a liquidation notice with the police.
When this reporter visited its main branch at People's Park Complex on Thursday morning, a notice at its entrance read that the agency "has closed for business and stop providing services with immediate effect. We will be returning all passports to customers through registered article in the next few days".
It also said customers with unfulfilled trips can make claims through travel insurance or file claims through the Small Claims Tribunal or CASE.
