Personal information from roughly 100,000 people was leaked in a recent hacking attack on the presidential office, a presidential official said Sunday, in the first confirmed data leakage involving the top South Korean office.   The official said the compromised information includes names, birth dates, identification numbers and offline addresses and Internet Protocol addresses, which are the online equivalent of street addresses or phone numbers.   Still, users' passwords and their registratio

The Financial Supervisory Service is poised to turn up the heat on chiefs of companies whose customers were inconvenienced or faced damage due to cyber security lapses.Chief executives in the financial industry will likely be held more accountable when their firms undergo leaks of customers’ private information through hacker attacks.Officials at the FSS said Thursday that the regulatory agency will unveil a package of comprehensive countermeasures, aimed at bolstering financial firms’ security

Minister of Gender Equality and Family Cho Yoon-sun visited the headquarters of SK Innovation in Jung-gu, Seoul, on Wednesday as part of her initiative to promote family-friendly working environments and also to repay a visit by the energy firm’s vice chairman and CEO Koo Ja-young.“A family-friendly work environment is important not only for corporations but also for the nation to maintain sustainable development and be prepared for the low birthrate and aging society,” the minister said. She br

LG Electronics Inc., the world’s third-largest smartphone maker, said Tuesday that sales of its flagship smartphone, the Optimus G Pro, surpassed the 1 million mark nationwide in four months since its release. The phone is was fastest to reach the figure among its smartphone lineup.Sales of the Optimus G Pro broke 500,000 40 days after its launch, becoming LG Electronics’ fastest-selling smartphone.In May, the tech giant rolled out the smartphone in the U.S. and also released the full HD smartph

Labor disputes at the Hankook Ilbo, a Korean-language newspaper, escalated over the weekend after its management expelled defiant reporters and closed the newsroom.The two sides have been at odds for months over allegedly unfair appointment and personal corruption by chairman Chang Jae-ku. On Saturday, the management evicted two journalists from its newsroom mobilizing 15 contract security guards and closed down the office, according to the labor union.The firm demanded that reporters sign a doc

The prosecutors’ office said Thursday it launched a probe into former presidential spokesperson Yoon Chang-jung, who allegedly harassed a female intern during a presidential trip to Washington, D.C., in May. Earlier this month, about 1,000 women from the minor opposition United Progressive Party and the Korean Women Alliance, an advocacy group, filed a complaint against Yoon on charges of sexual abuse and libel. “An accusation of sexual molestation requires a complaint filed by the victim, and v