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Facebook likely off the hook in South Korea for global data breach involving 530 million records

By Jenny Lee
  • 11 Jun 2021 02:45
  • 11 Jun 2021 02:45
Facebook is likely to be let off the hook in South Korea for the latest data leak that affected more than 530 million users globally, MLex has learned.
Two months into an investigation of the breach, which reportedly affected more than 120,000 of the 18 million Facebook users in South

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Jenny Lee

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Jenny joined MLex’s Seoul bureau in 2021 as a correspondent focusing on competition law and data privacy and security. Jenny received a Master’s degree from Northwestern University’s renowned Medill School of Journalism and worked for a number of news organizations in the US, including the Associated Press Television News, McClatchy and Voice of America, where she worked for almost three years in Washington DC. She returned to her native South Korea in 2019 as a reporter for Wired Korea.

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