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1,600 Hotel Guests Secretly Live Streamed to 4,000+ Subscribers

Four individuals from South Korea were detained for secretly recording, live streaming, and selling spy cam videos of 1600 motel guests between November 24 and March 2, with two of them being arrested and facing a maximum of five years in jail. The group used a setup of wireless IP cameras hidden in “42 motel rooms at 30 motels in 10 cities in Gyeongsang and Chungcheong Provinces”” The spycam ring would live stream the videos via a streaming website with servers located in other countries. South Korea has a serious problem with spy-cam sites and revenge porn as detailed in a press release published by the Copyright Protection Division of South Korea’s Ministry of Culture

Source: security

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