Korea: ISPs Suspected of Massive ID Theft - GoFuckYourself.com

u-Bob · 08-09-2007, 03:22 PM

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Police are investigating South Korea's two biggest ISPs on suspicion that
they broke identity theft laws on more than seven million occasions. The
two companies, KT and Hanaro Telecom Inc, are suspected of signing up more
than seven million customers for services without their permission,
according to police sources cited by local media today.

Many of the company's internet service customers were apparently illegally
signed up for additional services by telephone sales agents, who did not
obtain the written consent required under law, police say. Reports say the
two ISPs may have illegally signed up 7.3 million of the 10 million
households and businesses in the country that rely on them for internet
service.

src: http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/...identity-theft