A top executive of Kakao Corp., a popular South Korean messaging app, stepped down Wednesday following a widespread service outage on the ubiquitious platform that millions of South Koreans use regularly for wiring money, chatting with friends, hailing taxis, and logging onto other major websites. “As a CEO of Kakao, I feel miserable and strongly…
CEO of Kakao, South Korea’s Most Popular Messaging App, Resigns After Service Outage
Japanese Messaging App Admits It Processed User Data in China
LINE, a Japanese messaging app, admitted it sent user data to China, exposing people’s personal information to the communist regime, reported The Register. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been collecting big data—the new key asset for global power—as part of its intelligence strategy, in its bid to control worldwide information and transactions. LINE’s parent…
Japanese Messaging App Admits to Sending User Data to China
Japanese messaging app Line admitted it sent user data to China, exposing people’s personal information to the communist regime. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been collecting big data—the new key asset for global power—as part of its intelligence strategy, in its bid to control worldwide information and transactions. LINE’s parent company, Z-Holdings, released a…
Hundreds Arrested in Global Organized Crime Sting Using FBI-Developed Messaging App
Hundreds of suspects have been arrested and tons of drugs seized in one of the largest and most sophisticated global law enforcement operations ever, which relied on an FBI-developed encrypted messaging app that became popular with members of criminal networks and used to ensnare them. In a series of large-scale sting operations across 16 countries…
LINE Messaging App Exposed Users to Data Access by China-Based Company
March 18, 2021
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Japan’s popular messaging app LINE recently admitted that its users’ personal data stored on its server in Japan could be accessed by China-based engineers that the company had outsourced to. In an official response, LINE admitted that user data had been accessed more than 32 times and that it is now setting up a committee…
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