35 Million SK Telecom Accounts Stolen By Chinese Hackers

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 28, 2011 @06:36AM from the where's-that-great-firewall-when-needed? dept.

eldavojohn writes "South Korea's SK Telecom has revealed that earlier this week hackers stole 35 million account details from two sites. A portal called Nate Portal that provided e-mail services and a social networking site called CyWorld were the two targets by hackers who, SK Telecom claims, used IP addresses originating from China. From the article, 'The stolen data included user IDs, passwords, social security numbers, names, mobile phone numbers and email addresses. Nate said the social security numbers and passwords are encrypted so that they are not available for illegal use.'"

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Re:Accounts being stolen left and right by pixelpusher220 · 2011-07-28 07:01 · Score: 1, Offtopic

4. can we get an accurate summary?

*Nothing* was stolen. It was illegally obtained, but not stolen. The accounts still exist and are usable by the rightful owners baring any disabling by the telecom itself.

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