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Hotel Booking App Ordered to Compensate 300 Customers for Data Breach

SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Leading accommodation booking app Good Choice, better known as “Yeogiotte” in Korean, has been ordered by a court to pay up to 400,000 won (US$280) per person to 300 customers who suffered personal information leak, judicial officials said Friday. The Seoul Central District Court ruled Thursday that Good Choice [...]

Card Companies Fret over Prospect of Paying Huge Compensation for Information Leaks

SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) –Due to the massive personal information breaches that have occurred this year, major credit card companies such as KB Kookmin Card, Nonghyup Card, and Lotte Card took more than 160 million won in losses from business suspensions. But they are not out of the woods yet given they must face the [...]