Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-03-26 00:00:00
Affected organization: Naver
Affected country: Korea (the Republic of)
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: SEO
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Korea (the Republic of)
Description: A 31-year-old man is arrested for infiltrating the accounts of 25 million people on Naver, the nation's largest Web portal. According to the National Police Agency, the suspect, surnamed Seo, purchased the private information from a Korean-Chinese in August.