The personal information of nearly 1,000 North Koreans who defected to South Korea has been leaked after unknown hackers gained access to a resettlement agency’s database, the South Korean unification ministry has said. The ministry said it discovered last week the names, birth dates and addresses of 997 defectors had been stolen through a computer infected with malicious software at an agency called the Hana centre, in the southern city of Gumi. “The malware was planted through emails sent by an internal address,” a ministry official told reporters on the condition of anonymity, referring to a Hana centre email account. The Hana centre is among 25 institutes the ministry runs in the country to help about 32,000 defectors adjust to life in the richer, democratic South by providing jobs, medical and legal support. Defectors, most of whom risked their lives to flee poverty and political oppression, are a source of shame for North Korea. Its state media often denounces them as “human scum” and accuses South Korean spies of kidnapping some of them. The ministry official declined to say whether North Korea was believed to have been behind the hack, or what the motive might have been, saying a police… Read full this story
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