A man in his 20s who received gifted education in information security set up an illegal gambling site and sold personal information siphoned off through hacking to third parties, and was sentenced to prison.According to legal sources on the 27th, the Suwon District Court Criminal Division 14 single-judge bench (Judge Kang Young-seon) sentenced a defendant, identified as A, to one year and eight months in prison and ordered the forfeiture of 50 million won for violating the Personal Information Protection Act and the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc., and for opening a gambling space./Graphic=Lee Eun-hyeonA was a talented student who stood out in the field of information security from high school and received specialized gifted education. While in high school, A attended a university-affiliated information security gifted education institute and even completed the next-generation security leader training program run by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning at the time. A was recognized for skill in white-hat hacking, even winning a prize at a hacking defense competition hosted by the Ministry of National Defense.However, A veered into illegality as soon as entering university in 2017. From 2017 to 2020, A was brought to trial on charges of hacking illegal gambling sites at others’ request and siphoning off users’ personal information, including names and account numbers. The amount of personal information stolen ranged from more than 16,000 cases per site to more than 1,039,000 cases. It was found that A sold this for money.A also directly set up an illegal gambling site. From September 2020 to March 2021, A is also accused of purchasing 40 domains at the request of an illegal gambling site operator and opening sites. In a similar fashion, at others’ request, A carried out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks 16 times, causing disruptions to other illegal gambling sites.Judge Kang said, “The defendant previously committed a similar crime and received the leniency of a suspended sentence, yet committed the offenses in this case over a period of more than three years thereafter,” and added, “It appears A obtained considerable economic gain in the process, and it is doubtful A is remorseful.”However, the judge explained the sentencing rationale, noting that “the defendant was young at the time of the offenses, and some of the offenses remained attempts.”※ This article has been translated by AI. Share your feedback here.
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