'Twin Phone Thief' Ring Exposes Gaps in Information Management

According to this article which I don't fully understand in Digital Chosunilbo, there exists a big loophole in the system of managing personal information of mobile phone subscribers.

"The South Korean police arrested a group of conspirators who made so-called “twin phones” using personal information of mobile phone subscribers and phone serial number-listing programs they bought on the internet, and purchased cyber money using these phones. They told the police that those who sold the information to them said that they obtained the information of over 10,000 mobile phone subscribers.

The twin phones are duplicate phones with the same phone numbers, but it is banned because people can use it for illicit purposes by pretending to be the owner of phones."

emily | 10:23 AM | Spam, Viruses and Hoaxes |
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