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Telus AI, accreditation center fined in South Korea for privacy breaches, lax safeguards

( June 26, 2025, 05:03 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Telus International AI and the Korea Accreditation Board have been fined a combined 150.4 million won (about $111,000) by South Korea’s privacy regulator for failing to implement mandatory security safeguards. The Personal Information Protection Commission said Telus was penalized after a 2023 breach of its platform for recruiting and managing data annotators exposed the personal information of more than 13,000 individuals in South Korea and around 680,000 globally. Investigators found that Telus failed to enforce proper access controls and delayed breach notifications beyond the 72-hour legal deadline without justification. The Korea Accreditation Board was separately sanctioned over a SQL injection attack that compromised more than 21,000 user records, including resident registration numbers that should have been destroyed.The statement, in Korean, is attached....

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