Two Arrested For Hacking Personal Data of 8.7 Million Phone Users

An anonymous reader writes "South Korea's second largest wireless service provider has apologized after personal data of 8.7 millions of its mobile phone subscribers was stolen by hackers. The details are suspected to have been sold to marketing firms, netting the hackers close to $1 million. From the article: 'South Korean police have arrested two men who allegedly stole the personal information of about 8.7 million cellphone customers from KT Corp., the second biggest mobile carrier in South Korea. The company alerted police on July 13 after detecting traces of hacking attacks. The data was collected for the last five months, starting in February 2012.'"

Re:And what happens to the marketing firms?

[Anonymous Coward]

They start marketing security tools would be my bet...

Re:Wtf?

[will_die]

Yea but this is slashdot so it is not stealing it is piracy and the "victims" have not lost anything. The copiers have not done anything wrong by taking these bits and distributing it how the "owners" did not originally agree to.

After all if the owners had made the product available in a format and manner the would be buyers had wanted it they would not had to resort to this method to get the info.