South Korea's national law enforcement body, responsible for policing, criminal investigations, and public order nationwide.
South Korea's police added 15 specialists to the team investigating hacks of financial institutions, taking it from 28 to 43 investigators. Because the trail leads to attack servers abroad and the case could be handed to another agency, part of the probe's timing depends on people outside the police.
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Shinhan Bank exposed data on about 25,000 customers through a loan-broker inquiry platform kept apart from its core banking systems. Yonhap reports AI may have automated the credential stuffing, so the side systems that touch customer data are where lenders' security spending now gets tested.
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Korea's Serious Crimes Investigation Agency took over the prosecution's direct investigative powers with 1,962 of 2,874 posts filled and about 100 prosecutors. Its recruitment drives target police officers, many of whom weighed the move and have since backed off.
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South Korea closes its prosecution service on October 2 and widens the role of a 140,000-strong police force run by its third acting chief since December 2024. Its new checks are reviews by its own officers; the National Police Commission's control powers are still unbuilt.
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Korean police arrested 26,782 people in a six-month sweep against financial crime and cyber fraud, and detained 809 of them. The largest reported losses sit in two cryptocurrency schemes; marketplace scams supplied the case volume.
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Police referred 18 of 26 investigated users to prosecutors over 17.6 billion won in wagers, identifying them from on-chain transactions after regulators rejected the platform's argument that it had no Korean footprint.
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Korea Expressway Corporation projects 6.05 million vehicles a day over the holiday, up 11.8% on last year. The police plan built around it runs for 11 days, on a break that lasts four.
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Records for about 5,000 applicants were encrypted and still exposed, because the key travelled in the API response. The warning about that API arrived a month early.
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With the Prosecution Service abolished in October and police becoming the primary investigator for all crimes, law firm hiring shows where corporate criminal exposure now sits.
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