Police have opened an investigation into a post office employee suspected of passing customers' personal information to members of a revenge-for-hire ring through an internal computer network.
The Metropolitan Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency searched a post office in Yeosu, Jeonnam-Gwangju Integrated Special City, on August 18 and seized the mobile phone of a man in his 40s identified as A, a team leader at the branch, according to police on the 8th.
A is suspected of leaking customer information, including home addresses, to two members of a revenge-for-hire ring. Police believe he obtained the data through the postal service's internal logistics network. Employees handling logistics can retrieve home addresses and contact numbers by entering a customer's name or registered mail tracking number into the internal system, according to sources.
Police are investigating the circumstances of the case, including what requests A received from the ring.
