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Korean Auction Identity Thieves Nabbed |
Police have arrested two Koreans and a Chinese man on suspicion of being part of a group of hackers who pilfered the personal information of some 10.81 million users of Auction, Korea’s largest e-marketplace, in early February. Chinese police are in pursuit of the main body of the group, one Chinese hacker and the Korean leader. The Cyber Terror Response Center of the National Police Agency on Wednesday said three of five people who hacked Auction -- a 46-year-old Korean identified as Yeo, a 33-year-old Korean named Kim, and a Chinese man named Wi -- were arrested by Chinese police in Shandong Province, China in late March. The Chinese man who actually did the hacking and the Korean chief who coordinated the scheme have not yet been caught.
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