▲ Matchmaking agency Duo
The number of victims participating in damages lawsuits against the matchmaking agency Duo and the over-the-top (OTT) streaming service TVING, both of which suffered personal data breaches, is surging.
The total number of plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Duo, represented by the law firm LKB & Partners, has reached 1,072.
LKB & Partners explained that following 46 plaintiffs in the first lawsuit and 455 in the second, an additional 571 plaintiffs filed their complaints yesterday.
The claim amount is 1 million won per person.
Among these, Judge Kim Noah of the Seoul Central District Court, presiding over the first lawsuit, referred the case to mediation on June 10.
Mediation is a process that leads to a settlement by encouraging compromise and agreement between the parties involved in a dispute.
The legal team plans to raise issues regarding Duo's long-term retention of personal data from withdrawn members and the difficulty for victims to verify whether their information was leaked and what specific items were compromised.
In April, the Personal Information Protection Commission announced that a work PC used by a Duo employee was hacked, leading to the leak of personal information belonging to 427,464 full members.
The investigation revealed that the leaked data included not only names, dates of birth, addresses, and mobile phone numbers but also highly sensitive information such as height, weight, religion, marital history, workplace, and educational background.
Similarly, the number of victims participating in the damages lawsuit against TVING, which also experienced a data breach, has exceeded 90,000.
The law firm Jihyang stated that as of this morning, a total of 90,377 victims of the TVING data breach have joined the lawsuit.
The claim amount is 300,000 won per plaintiff.
Jihyang explained that the number of participants, which stood at around 50,000 as of yesterday, is increasing rapidly.
Recently, TVING suffered a breach where unauthorized external access led to the leak of some personal information, including member IDs, names, dates of birth, phone numbers, and email addresses.
The Personal Information Protection Commission is currently verifying the specific circumstances of the breach and the scale of the damage.
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