Carrier AT and T, Verizon And T Mobile Pay better attention to what is going on in South Korea-Perhaps the US-based telecommunications can learn from other carriers mistakes. The bets are high in $ 100 million ballpark.
Only a few hours ago, a regulator in South Korea fined the country’s largest mobile carrier SK Telecom. exerted by Financial punishment The amount of 134.8 billion won, which is approximately $ 97 million when changed directly. What is high, an additional administrative penalty of 9.6 million wins was also imposed.
It exceeds Google’s 2022 fine, won ~ 70 billion. The search engine giants were fined to collect individual information without user consent.
Similarly, the reason for the record SK Telecom Fine is a huge user data leak. This returned in April of this year. The PIPC chairperson was explained to the chairman in a press briefing that the committee had reached the decision during a general meeting on the previous day.
Brech was first reported to PIPC by SK Telecom on 22 April, after detecting the suspected volume of data leaving its network on 18 April by the company. After a month -long investigation, the regulators confirmed that information related to more than 23 million customers was compromised. Stolen data included phone numbers, international mobile subscriber identification code and 23 other types of universal customer identification modules (USIM) information.
In July, the government declared SK Telecom responsible for sufficiently to save the customers’ adequate information. As part of the response, the regulators directed the company to waive the initial termination fee to the customers who chose to switch to the carrier.
We hope that this incident acts as a reminder to companies that process large versions of individual data to see individual information security budget as an essential investment. We also hope that it will raise awareness about the role and importance of CPOs and dedicated privacy teams in corporate management.
-Pipc chairperson to right, August 2025
The PIPC stated that the fine was based on several deficiencies in SK Telecom’s data security practices, including weak access control, poor monitoring of access rights, failure to encrypse USIM authentication keys, and delayed notification of delayed users. Last month, SK Telecom won 700 billion towards the information security initiative and an additional 500 billion won the customer security, as well as waived the expiry fees. Its very late? After the fine was declared, SK Telecom issued a statement accepting the decision and expressing a sense of responsibility. However, it also expressed disappointment that its protective efforts and clarifications were not fully reflected in results. SK Telecom said it would review the written decision of PIPC. The company has 90 days from deciding to challenge the ruling legally.
Nevertheless, the size of fines has criticized, pointing to some anomalies compared to previous cases. For example, Google was fined 69.2 billion in 2022 to use customer data for targeted advertising without consent. Kakao was fined 15.1 billion, which included its open chat room service, while LG Euplus paid 6.8 billion after a breech as SK Telecom.
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