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South Korean Court Imposes Personal Liability on Privacy Officer for Data Breach

The Seoul Eastern District Court as found Kim Jin-Hwan, a privacy officer of the South Korean travel agency Hana Tour Service Inc., guilty of negligence in failing to prevent a 2017 data breach that affected over 465,000 customers of the agency and 29,000 Hana Tour employees.

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