BakerHostetler (JD Supra South Korea)
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South Korea Opens the Door for Unintentional Data Breach Collective Actions
On February 15, 2013, the Seoul Western District Court in South Korea issued a judgment in a collective consumer action against a South Korean company for a data breach involving personal data in its possession. Importantly, the unlawful breach at issue in this case was not caused by the company’s intentional misconduct, but instead the company’s carelessness and mismanagement of the personal...
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