By Jenny Lee ( May 14, 2026, 04:34 GMT | Insight) -- Boram Sangjo was fined roughly 554 million won ($371,000) by South Korea's privacy regulator after hackers broke into a centralized customer database shared across the funeral-services group's affiliates, exploiting security gaps that the company had left unaddressed. The attack, which was reported to the regulator in May 2024 and exposed the personal information of about 28,000 customers, came through a SQL injection technique, in which an intruder manipulates a web application's database by inserting malicious code through a vulnerable input point.Boram Sangjo was fined roughly 554 million won ($371,000) by South Korea's privacy regulator after hackers broke into a centralized customer database shared across the funeral-services group's affiliates, exploiting security gaps that the company had left unaddressed....
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