A Seoul court on Friday ordered the country’s second-largest mobile carrier KT Corp. to compensate 100 more users who filed a complaint after their personal information was leaked in a massive hacking attack in 2012.
The Seoul Central District Court ordered KT to pay 100,000 won (US$92) in compensation to each of the 100 victims. The total amounts to 10 million won.
They were among the nearly 8.7 million mobile phone users whose personal information was leaked in July 2012. The data, which contained the subscriber’s personal details, their phone numbers and monthly plans, were suspected to have been used by telemarketers.
“KT failed to fulfill its duty to stop the personal information from leaking,” Judge Lee Jin-hwa said in her ruling, adding that the hacking inflicted mental distress on the victims.
Earlier this year, the same court ordered the company to pay 100,000 won to each of some 28,000 KT subscribers. (Yonhap)
