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Hacker grabs personal info at Daum

The nation’s No. 2 Web portal has been hacked, but it kept the fact hidden for eight months.

According to Daum Communications, the password and login ID of one of its customer service center employees were hacked by a professional hacker last July. The hacker, who threatened to release customers’ personal information unless he was financially rewarded, was arrested right away, and Daum kept the case quiet. It urged potential victims to change their passwords without offering details about the accident.

However, after a group of hackers who learned some of their skills from the hacker who attacked Daum was arrested recently by the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, the case was exposed to the public yesterday. The Daum hacker made similar threats to the top Korean Web portal, Naver, in 2005.

“Daum should have reacted appropriately to the hacking instead of covering its mistakes because it has the second-largest number of users among Korean Web portals,” said an industry insider, who wanted to remain anonymous.

Amid mounting condemnation, however, Daum excused itself from direct responsibility.

“Customer centers usually deal with complaints and other general inquires, not the personal information of Internet users. That’s why we did not make a public announcement about the incident,” an official from Daum said.

Many customer service centers require personal information, such as personal identification numbers, when registering new customers.

“In addition, prosecutors in charge of the incident expressed deep concern over making the case public because the hacker was threatening us. If the case went public, the hacker might have revealed all the information over the Internet or run away,” the official added.

The official also said Daum beefed up its security, claiming all of its systems are now immune to hacking.

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Q1. In the world, people use the PC with networking for not only the check e-mail but also personal work. It means they always expose our information to hackers, do you have your own way to protect from hackers or don't care of hackers and why?

Q2. What do you think about a social phenomenon which we unconcern about hacker?

Q3. What do you think about Daum happening?

and Auction happening also.....

Q4. Have you seen the Move "die hard 4" which treat Hacking story, do you believe it could be happened or not? and why?

Q5. Think about IT industry in korea, how to keep ours and how to avoid other countries attack like chinese, Japanese, American etc....

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