All posts tagged "Identity theft"

  • The South Korean government plans to move forward on improving working conditions for subcontracted workers. (AP / Yonhap)
    South Korea identity thefts force ID overhaul

    By Kim Tong-hyung (AP) – After an avalanche of data breaches, South Korea’s national identity card system has been raided so thoroughly by thieves that the government says it might have to issue new ID numbers to...

    • Posted October 15, 2014
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  • An “identity theft” victim reports a Facebook page as owned by someone “pretending to be me.” Risks of identity theft are higher than ever as “thieves” steal photos and use them to create a virtual existence, assuming that the behavior is okay because they are not profiting from it, nor committing a serious crime. (Korea Times file)
    Living someone else’s life

    ‘Identity theft’ increasing on SNS By Kwon Ji-youn, Yoon Sung-won, Park Jin-hai Property theft can easily be punished as long as evidence points in one direction, hopefully the right one. But what happens in cases of identity...

    • Posted January 22, 2014
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