A massive hack of about 120,000 IP cameras in Korea exposed intimate footage sold overseas, revealing regulatory gaps in home surveillance devices and prompting government action over privacy risks and accountability.
Four people have been arrested in connection with the hacking of more than 120,000 internet protocol surveillance cameras installed in homes and businesses, which led to the large-scale production and distribution of sexually exploitative videos.
LG Innotek has completed the construction of its V3 plant in Vietnam, aiming to accelerate the mass production of smartphone camera modules, the LG Electronics subsidiary announced on Sunday.
Prosecutors have requested a prison term and the release of personal information for a 25-year-old medical school student accused of filming women without their consent.
The railway police division of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport apprehended a sex offender on the spot for illegally filming under women’s skirts by attaching a small camera on top of a shoe during morning commuting hours.
A male Seoul subway station worker in his 30s was sentenced to prison for illegally filming his female colleagues as they changed clothes by installing a hidden camera in their break room.
Prosecutors indicted a YouTuber under charges of installing spy cameras at early voting sites nationwide ahead of the April 10 general election, Incheon District Prosecutors’ Office said Tuesday.
Police have booked nine more suspected accomplices in the recently detected installations of spy cameras at about 40 polling stations ahead of the April 10 parliamentary elections, officials said Monday.
Two people accused of installing spy cameras at six early voting sites to assist a YouTuber were arrested and transferred to prosecutors, police said Tuesday.
The "rearview camera prank," in which social media users pop their faces into car cameras to startle drivers, has caused controversy in Korea, prompting Instagram to hide the hashtag.
Korea JoongAng Daily Sitemap
