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2012년 11월 1일 목요일

Man uses Google to get info of nearly 9M people

Allisa Hwang Eun Sol
11.1.2012



- from Korea JoongAng Daily


This article is about an unemployed 37 years old man amassed almost 9 million people's personal information in the past two years. He, who has no expertise in computer hacking, could amass that much information by googling. He could gain access to certain managerial areas of web sites by putting "admin" into the Google search bar along with names and personal information of site membersPolice arrested him for illegally compiling nearly 8.84 million personal profiles from over 100 web sites. Police also said about the sites that was hacked that they are investigating if the sites paid no attention on personal information, and if there is any infringement, they will give criminal penalty to them. 

When I read is article first, I was very surprised that he had no expertise in computer hacking, but only used Google. Than, I was surprised again at amount he hacked. I think he is worth to be punished. We have right to private, and he invaded it. Also, I think it is right for site owners to be punished, too. The article says that the information could be protected if site owners putted more attention to security. 



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