{"id":1067707,"date":"2021-11-30T09:14:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T14:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1067707"},"modified":"2021-11-30T09:14:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T14:14:31","slug":"south-korea-hackers-steal-naked-photos-from-over-700-smart-home-devices-sell-for-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-korea-hackers-steal-naked-photos-from-over-700-smart-home-devices-sell-for-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea: Hackers Steal &#039;Naked Photos&#039; from over 700 Smart Home Devices, Sell for Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsouth-korea-hackers-steal-naked-photos-from-over-700-smart-home-devices-sell-for-bitcoin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1067707&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/nude-woman-smiling-getty.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">An unknown party recently&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/m.kmib.co.kr\/view.asp?arcid=0924220507\">hacked<\/a>&nbsp;at least 700 smart home devices across South Korea and sold explicit images and videos accessed through the devices on the dark web, South Korea\u2019s National Police confirmed Monday when announcing a criminal investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter receiving a call from the Korea Internet &amp; Security Agency and starting an inspection, it seems that there were about 700 shootings [recordings],\u201d Nam Gu-Jun, the chief of South Korea\u2019s National Investigation Headquarters \u2014 which is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/PYH20210226201900315\">branch<\/a> of South Korea\u2019s National Police Agency \u2014&nbsp;told reporters on November 29.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe police have requested the removal of the video from the website where it was posted,\u201d Nam said, as quoted by&nbsp;South Korea\u2019s <em>Kukmin Ilbo<\/em> newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, since it is a website with a server in a foreign country and a privately operated website, it is unclear whether the request for deletion will be accepted,\u201d the official acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor this reason, the police are also discussing ways to prevent exposure on the domestic Internet with relevant domestic agencies,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The South Korean tech news website IT Chosun exclusively <a href=\"http:\/\/it.chosun.com\/site\/data\/html_dir\/2021\/11\/12\/2021111202264.html\">reported<\/a> on November 15 that hundreds of smart home devices in apartments across Seoul, South Korea\u2019s national capital, and on the southern Korean island of Jeju were recently hacked. Some of the video footage filmed during the hacking was later sold for \u201c\u20180.1 BTC\u201d on the dark web. BTC stands for Bitcoin, a type of cryptocurrency. A sum of 0.1 BTC equals about 8 million South Korean won, or roughly USD $6,717.<\/p>\n<p>IT Chosun said it first learned of the naked photos incident through an \u201coverseas hacking forum\u201d and subsequently reached out to a hacker who claimed he was responsible for the cybercrime. When IT Chosun asked the hacker for evidence to support his claim, the individual responded by uploading \u201cthumbnails (preview images)\u201d to a website he operates on the dark web.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The] thumbnails included a lot of provocative images, such as naked photos of men and women, and even images of [people] having sex, in addition to the landscapes of ordinary homes,\u201d IT Chosun detailed. \u201cThe picture quality was not good, but in the case of a thumbnail with a large face, you can even identify who the person is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hacker obtained the thumbnail images from video footage accessed by infiltrating software used to operate smart home devices such as video intercoms.&nbsp;Such technology is commonly used in&nbsp;South Korea, where 63 percent of the population <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/people\/article\/3157726\/south-korea-boosts-laws-after-hacker-sells-nude-videos-smart-home\">resides<\/a> in apartment homes. The video intercoms are typically installed on devices that use a two-way camera that may access both the interior and exterior of a home.<\/p>\n<p>When IT Chosun expressed incredulity at the hacker having accessed \u201call\u201d apartment complexes in South Korea, as he had allegedly claimed, the individual responded by sending the IT news website \u201ca list of secured videos saying, \u2018Choose the apartment complex you want.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>IT Chosun said the list of apartments it received was so extensive that, if confirmed, the hacker might have secretly recorded up to tens of thousands of people to secure the naked photos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is difficult to confirm the exact apartment name and address [of the apartments on the list],\u201d the tech site acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut hundreds of apartment complexes across the country, including Seoul as well as Jeju Island, were on the list,\u201d IT Chosun reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf all the apartment complexes on the list were hacked as the hacker said, then the private lives of tens of thousands of Koreans are being broadcast live somewhere,\u201d the IT news site observed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unknown party recently\u00a0hacked\u00a0at least 700 smart home devices across South Korea and sold explicit images and videos accessed through the devices on the dark web, South Korea\u2019s National Police &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}