South Korea Reissues Passports After Leak Exposed President Lee’s Passport Data
South Korea’s Foreign Ministry is reissuing passports for 168 people, including President Lee Jae Myung and first lady Kim Hea Kyung, after a passenger list…
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AI Update: Korean Police Arrest Alleged Leader of AI-Assisted Hacking Ring
AI Update covers a Korean AI-assisted hacking arrest, a poisoned Claude Code extension, Warp’s breach, malicious Hugging Face models and a deepfake sentencing.
KEPCO Leak Allegations Include Facial Data for 408 Employees
Facial-recognition data for 408 people and security information for 14,957 CCTV cameras were among records leaked from Korea Electric Power Corporation…
South Korea Opens Government Mobile IDs to Four More Bank Apps
South Korea is opening its government mobile ID service to four additional banking apps, allowing users of IBK Industrial Bank of Korea, Shinhan Bank, Woori…
SBI and KB Kookmin Card Plan Cross-Border AI Agent Identity Trials
SBI Holdings, SBI Everspin, Everspin and KB Kookmin Card have signed a memorandum of understanding to test AI-agent identity and authorization controls for…
KakaoBank Opens Selfie-Based Mobile Onboarding to Foreign Residents
KakaoBank has launched remote account opening for foreign residents in South Korea, using selfie verification and public MyData to simplify identity checks…
South Korea Asks Carriers to Drop ‘ID’ From PASS Service Name
South Korea’s Ministry of the Interior and Safety has asked the country’s three mobile carriers to drop the word “ID” from the name of their PASS identity…
Union Biometrics Wins KRW 17.2 Billion Korean Army Access Control Contract
Union Biometrics has won a KRW 17.2 billion contract from South Korea’s Army headquarters to build a new automated access control system for military bases,…
Complaints Over Refused South Korean Mobile IDs Rose 22-Fold in Three Years
Complaints about South Korean mobile IDs being refused or unusable rose about 22-fold in three years, from 105 in 2022 to 2,323 in 2025, according to Ministry…
HectoData Adds Passport OCR, Liveness and Face Matching APIs
South Korea’s HectoData has added passport recognition to its document-reading services and launched liveness detection and Face Match APIs for remote identity…