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South Korea Arrests Seven in AI-Enabled Hacking Case
Police in Seoul have arrested seven individuals in a hacking campaign that used generative AI to break into about 90 organizations and steal 8.2 million records. The alleged ringleader, a 32-year-old with no IT background, taught himself hacking through YouTube and online blogs, and used an AI coding agent and autonomous penetration-testing system to breach 60 companies in 44 days, from August 31 to October 13. The targets included hospitals, universities, private cram schools, golf courses, and subsidiaries of large conglomerates, with some data breaches affecting minors. The campaign ran for about 13 months, from September 2025 through this October, and the case opened in June after one victim filed a complaint.