“”This is a more serious issue than the Coupang incident, where large-scale personal information was leaked in that an internal employee accessed certain personal information without permission.””
The atmosphere is defined as.
According to a Rotok report,
Some employees with internal operating authority on Weverse viewed the personal information of Mr. A, the winner of the fan signing event, without permission other than for work purposes.
did it They freely mentioned a specific fan’s personal information as well as purchase details in the messenger, and even exchanged remarks in which they attempted to use Mr. A’s personal information for personal purposes.
What is most shocking is that these employees conspired to exclude Mr. A from winning and even attempted to arbitrarily manipulate the list.
It’s done.
Did they try to steal customer personal information and manipulate the winners? Secret conversations of internal employees discovered
This incident was triggered when captures of mobile messenger conversations believed to belong to Hive employees were made public through social networking services (SNS) in late November 2025. And on December 31 of the same year, the legal magazine ‘Rotalk’ published an article and it became widely known.
The legal community believes that the ramifications of this case will be very large.
It is pointed out that this is not simply an ‘accident’ in which information was ‘exposed’ to the outside, but an area of ‘crime’ in which an internal employee attempted to ‘abuse’ his authority and use it for personal purposes.
It is.
A security expert said, “If the Coupang incident was a matter of corporate mismanagement, this Weverse incident is a ‘bad’ incident that combines the company’s internal control failure and moral hazard.”
“”When I confirmed in the chat log that Weverse employees were talking about other people’s personal information very naturally, I thought that viewing and leaking personal information had been a daily occurrence for a long time.”
He said.
A pop culture critic who requested anonymity said, “The core asset of the fandom platform is fans’ data.”
“The fact that the staff managing this treated fans as objects of voyeurism and ridicule rather than objects of protection suggests that Hive’s corporate culture itself is seriously distorted.”
criticized.
Meanwhile,
It has been reported that a civic group plans to soon file a complaint regarding unauthorized viewing of personal information on Weverse and hold a press conference at the National Assembly Communication Center.
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One-line summary: Suspicion arises that Weverse employees are trying to manipulate the winners of the Fansign event by accessing personal information without permission.