More than half of South Korea’s 50 million population aged between 15 and 65 have been affected in a massive data breach, compromising their personal information. The data breach came to light when 16 individual were arrested following the theft of about 220 million stolen records from a number of online game, ringtone storefronts and movie ticket sites that contains personally identifiable information related to 27 million victims. The stolen records included actual name, account name, password and resident registration number of the victims. Police estimated the breach caused in secondary damages alone is nearly $2 million.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2014/08/70-of-south-korean-population_27.html