By Wooyoung Lee ( August 28, 2026, 03:39 GMT | Insight) -- South Korea’s state childcare and adoption agency stored sensitive children’s data on poorly secured devices and lacked basic controls to track their movement, a privacy official told MLex. The privacy regulator fined the agency 885.2 million won ($641,240) over breaches affecting more than 1.17 million records, including unencrypted resident-registration numbers. Investigators have found no evidence that the breaches caused further harm, but an adoptee has filed a separate lawsuit against the agency over the breaches, the official said.South Korea’s state childcare and adoption agency kept hard drives containing sensitive children’s data in an office cabinet wrapped in paper, without basic controls to track the devices, an official told MLex, as the country’s privacy regulator fined the agency 885.2 million won ($641,240) over a series of data breaches....
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