By Kim Se-jeong
More than a dozen students and faculty at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology (KAIST) have had their credit card information stolen by a hacker who attempted to make payments in Japan, according to the school, Thursday.
The school said that the number of victims was about 20, but the number is likely to rise as the news spreads. The amount was not much, either 1 or 2 yen.
As students reported text messages about small charges made oversease on Wednesday evening, credit card companies went ahead to block transactions recorded from the troubled credit card reader.
The companies suspect the information had been stolen from card readers at a store near the school campus in Daejeon, where the hacker may have been running tests.
Most of the victims are students, but some professors were also included, according to KAIST. It asked students to report additional cases to the school authorities and police.
More than a dozen students and faculty at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology (KAIST) have had their credit card information stolen by a hacker who attempted to make payments in Japan, according to the school, Thursday.
The school said that the number of victims was about 20, but the number is likely to rise as the news spreads. The amount was not much, either 1 or 2 yen.
As students reported text messages about small charges made oversease on Wednesday evening, credit card companies went ahead to block transactions recorded from the troubled credit card reader.
The companies suspect the information had been stolen from card readers at a store near the school campus in Daejeon, where the hacker may have been running tests.
Most of the victims are students, but some professors were also included, according to KAIST. It asked students to report additional cases to the school authorities and police.
