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A 30-year-old feminine worker of a Hong Kong-based airline has been caught promoting confidential flight data of BTS and different fashionable Okay-pop celebrities.The Seoul Metropolitan Police Company’s cybercrime unit launched an investigation into the 30-year-old over allegations that she was illegally accessing the flight particulars of the airline’s shoppers. The investigation later uncovered a large information breach spanning from 2023 to 2024.Based on the investigation’s outcomes, the unnamed worker leveraged her entry to the airline’s inner reserving techniques to seek for the names and birthdays of celebrities. As well as, the worker was additionally mentioned to have used the software program to acquire the confidential flight data of Korean celebrities, together with their seat numbers.She later offered the knowledge for revenue, charging larger costs for data associated to high Okay-pop stars like BTS. It’s estimated that she offered greater than 1,000 information units, making a revenue of greater than 10 million Korean received (roughly $7,000).The scheme started as a favor to an acquaintance earlier than the worker started acquiring and promoting the knowledge for revenue. The police are actually investigating whether or not the worker had any accomplices within the distribution of the knowledge.This incident has raised severe considerations about safety throughout the airline trade and unauthorized entry to passenger information. Okay-pop stars and different celebrities have lengthy been targets of obsessive followers who try to receive private journey data, making this breach significantly alarming.In January 2020, JYP Leisure confronted a severe safety breach involving TWICE member Nayeon when a German stalker managed to board the identical flight as her from Japan to South Korea. The incident prompted the corporate to put Nayeon beneath police safety and launch an investigation into how the group’s flight data was leaked and offered on-line.In June 2024, HYBE (previously Large Hit Leisure) revealed that it had found a number of suspects concerned within the unlawful buying and selling of its artists’ data. The suspects have been referred to the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Workplace.
