College freshman nabbed for alleged data hacking

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http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20141106000958

The Korea Herald
2014-11-06

Police said Thursday they have booked a 20-year-old student without 
physical detention for allegedly hacking into websites and leaking more 
than 10,000 IDs and passwords of their users online.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said the college freshmen in Seoul 
spread malicious software on 104 websites in 24 countries between November 
2013 and August this year, collecting information from about 280,000 
accounts.

He published 13,000 of them on his blog and online hacking forums and used 
some of them to snoop on emails or purchase goods with others' credit 
cards.

The student is also accused of accessing the website of a South Korean 
state institution with the account of a civil servant he had obtained 
through his hacking.

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