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The police arrested a group of conspirators who made so-called ˇ°twin phonesˇ± using personal information of mobile phone subscribers and phone serial number-listing programs they bought on the internet, and purchased cyber money using these phones. They told the police that those who sold the information to them said that they obtained the information of over 10,000 mobile phone subscribers. This led to the revelation that there is a big loophole in the system of managing personal information of mobile phone subscribers.
The twin phones are duplicate phones with the same phone numbers, but it is banned because people can use it for illicit purposes by pretending to be the owner of phones. The Police Cyber Terror Center arrested three men Thursday who stole W10 million using twin phones. The police said that the men bought personal information of 1,200 subscribers of a mobile phone company, including phone numbers, ID numbers, and ESN code, and code reference programs at W5 million on the internet around mid-last month, and using these, they duplicated 1,000 cellular phones with the same numbers.
Then, they purchased cyber money worth W35 million on Internet game sites over duplicated phones and cashed W10 million of them on cyber money selling sites. And the phone bill was charged to actual subscribers whose information was stolen.
The police said, ˇ°Even in mobile phone manufacturing companies, a limited number of workers can reference such information as ESN code. It is urgently needed to improve the information management system of communications companies and mobile phone manufacturers.ˇ±
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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