South Korean military investigates signs of leaked list of overseas covert agents
Signs emerged that a list of the South Korean military's overseas covert agents had been leaked. The possibility that the information was exposed to North Korea and suspicions of hacking were raised, and South Korea's human intelligence agency launched an investigation into the leak.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Signs of a leak of the military's list of overseas covert agents
- Cause / method
- Not confirmed
- Location
- South Korea
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Timeline
- Signs of a leak of the military's list of overseas covert agents, the possibility of exposure to North Korea, and suspicions of hacking were raised.
- It emerged that South Korea's human intelligence agency was investigating the leak.
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