DAEGU, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — An operator of the controversial doxing website “Digital Prison” has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for violating privacy law by disclosing personal data of suspected sex offenders and other criminals. The Daegu District Court delivered the prison sentence Wednesday to the website’s initial operator and ordered [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s internet censorship body on Thursday decided to block public access to a controversial doxing website that discloses personal information of alleged sex offenders and pedophiles over concerns of false accusations. The “Digital Prison” website was created earlier this year after public anger mounted over high-profile sex abuse [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — When a South Korean court denied the request in July from the United States to extradite Son Jong-woo, the operator of one of the world’s largest child sexual exploitation websites, and freed him, a local prison moved to take matters into its own hands. It locked him up again [...]