Prison sentence upheld for exchange operator who leaked secrets on North Korean hacker's orders
A cryptocurrency exchange operator, acting on instructions from a North Korean hacker, recruited a military officer and leaked classified information. The Supreme Court upheld the operator's prison sentence.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Leak of classified information
- Cause / method
- Recruitment of a military officer by a cryptocurrency exchange operator acting on a North Korean hacker's instructions
- Location
- South Korea
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Timeline
- It was reported that the prison sentence of a cryptocurrency exchange operator who recruited an officer and leaked classified information on a North Korean hacker's instructions had been upheld.
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