South Korea’s SK Telecom was fined on Thursday about 134 billion won ($96.53 million) after the country’s largest mobile carrier suffered a cyberattack this year causing the leak of data for nearly 27 million users.
The government-run Personal Information Protection Commission announced the punishment in a state
ment, blaming the company for neglecting its duty to take safety measures and for delays in notifying the leak to customers.
The company’s systems were in a “very weak condition” that allowed outside users to gain access to its internal intranet, the commission said. There was no pa
ssword or safety measures taken to protect its servers, while operating systems were outdated without the latest security updates, it said.
The company must strengthen safety rules on information protection and revamp its governance, the commission said.
SK Telecom felt a “grave responsibility” and would do its best to protect customer information, making it a top priority, the company said in a text message, when asked about the ruling.
The company would make further comment when it received formal notification from the commission.
SK Telecom said in July it would beef up information protection and invest about 700 billion won over five years on data protection.
($1 = 1,388.0000 won)
(Reporting by Heejin Kim; editing by Ed Davies)
When the Eaton Fire burned in Los Angeles County in early January, 75% of the structures in the fire perimeter had a low to moderate wildfire hazard, but they c
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arried a high to very high conflagration hazard. Eighty-four percent of structures affected or destroyed by the blaze carried this very high conflagration categorization, a new analysis shows.
Cotality conducted a retrospective analysis of the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires using two of its wildfire products and shared the results in a recent wildfire rep
ort. That analysis found that properties assessed as low or moderate wildfire hazard may still face high or very high conflagration risk, especially in wildfire-prone areas.
Wildfire-induced conflagration occurs when wildfire transitions from a natural vegetation environment into a built environment, allowing fire to spread between structures. Cotality determines conflagration hazar
d based on how the structures themselves can contribute to the potential for loss once a wildfire meets the built en
vironment. That assement includes structure density, structure characteristics, weather and climate.
It differs from wildfire risk, which looks at the hazard on or surrounding a location by considering factors like risk on the property, distance to high-hazard fuels, open wildland, as well as wind and drought.
While this transition between environments may seem subtle, it fundamentally alters the fire’s behavior, impacting how it spreads, where it travels and the scale of its potential destruction, Cotality, formerly CoreLogic, said in its report.
“This is important for carriers, as there is heightened risk tied to certain structures because of the factors that drive conflagration,” Jamie Knippen, the data an
ager, said in an interview. “And that’s what we saw in [the] Palisades and Eaton [fires], and why so many structures were ultimately destroyed.”