( June 5, 2026, 03:14 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Tving is under investigation by South Korea's privacy regulator after the streaming platform detected signs of unauthorized access to a database containing user data on Tuesday and reported the incident to the Personal Information Protection Commission early Wednesday. Potentially exposed information includes user IDs, names, dates of birth, gender, mobile phone numbers, email addresses, refund account details and passwords, as well as encrypted identifiers derived from national ID numbers that are widely used by South Korean online services. The regulator said it would investigate the cause and scale of the breach and assess whether Tving had met its data security, notification and reporting obligations under the Personal Information Protection Act.Statement is attached (in Korean)....
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