A businessperson has been caught by the police for the first time for selling illegal smartphone applications for not only wiretapping but checking into text messages and location tracking.
The 39-year-old Choi has been nabbed by the Cyber Terrorism Prevention Center of the National Police Service for violating regulations on the distribution of rogue software and the operation of information and telecommunications networks.
According to police investigators, Choi brought in the wiretapping apps from Chinese operators and pocketed 3.9 million won (($3,500) in the process.
Choi worked with a party of five, including a 31-year-old Kim and secretly installed the apps in smartphones. Among them were those running call centers who often do errands on behalf of debt collectors.