1. US Department of Justice, North Korean hacker’prosecution’… “Cryptocurrency theft”
Yesterday (17th) local time, the US Department of Justice revealed that in December last year, three North Korean hackers were indicted. According to foreign media, hackers Chun Chang-hyuk, Kim Il, and Park Jin-hyuk of North Korea’s intelligence agency, the General Reconnaissance Bureau, were accused of stealing or demanding more than 1.3 billion dollars in cash and virtual currency from banks and corporations around the world and about 1.4 trillion won in Korean money. There is. They are also accused of attempting to steal information from companies that have contracts with the US government by sending emails of malicious code. The US Department of Justice believes they committed crimes to raise money for the North Korean regime. The prosecution is said to have occurred as an extension of the Sony Pictures hacking case in 2014. At the time, North Korea made a hacking attack on Sony Pictures, which produced the movie’Interview’ to assassinate the top leaders.
2. McDonald’s employee who’Illegal Shooting in Changing Room’ for over a year
It was revealed that a man in his twenties working at a McDonald’s store illegally filmed the changing room. Mr. A, a McDonald’s employee in Changwon, Gyeongnam, illegally filmed the unisex changing room from June 2019 to December last year. Mr. A put his mobile phone in his coat pocket and made the inside of the changing room to be photographed. It is said that he took a picture of the time he went to work 7 hours a day for 5 days a week until he left the office. The crime was revealed when an employee found a cell phone while changing clothes. A’s mobile phone stored 101 videos of 20 female employees changing clothes, and a large number of child sexual exploits were found on external hard drives. McDonald’s said, “We will conduct daily inspection of the changing room and provide annual sexual harassment prevention training for all employees of the store,” but the changing room is still said to be unisex. Currently, Mr. A is in custody and is about to be tried.
3. A partner who stole ‘2.7 billion’ from Gyeong-hwan Heo’s company… ‘bit’
Yang-mo, a co-worker who stole more than 2 billion won of money from a company run by comedian Heo Gyeong-hwan, was sentenced to three years and six months in prison and a fine of 10 million won in the first trial. Yang was accused of stealing a total of 2.73 billion won in company funds from a food distribution company where Heo was the representative. The company withdrew funds over 600 times, stamped the alcohol supply contract in the name of Gyeong-Hwan Heo and issued a promissory note. In addition, in 2012, he borrowed 100 million won from Mr. Heo and was charged with fraud for not paying it back. Heo Gyeong-hwan said on a social network, “I thought that comedians should laugh, not burden them, so I did it quietly,” he said. “Thanks to the expensive tuition, it seems that the company has grown every year and the company has become more solid.”