Washington told Seoul to uphold decades-long alliance standards on intelligence after Seoul's spy agency was kept out of a June trilateral cyber meeting. So far the cost sits in intelligence, where Seoul's top general says US curbs on North Korean nuclear data have run past six months, the Seoul Economic Daily reported.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives60
- Confidence62
South Korea's opposition wants intelligence agencies inside the probe of six lender hacks
South Korea's People Power Party wants intelligence agencies in a joint probe of hacks it says have hit six lenders, four of them commercial banks. Its spokesperson concedes the attacker is unknown, so whether the six share one cause will decide who answers for them.
Reality
- Evidence25
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives75
- Confidence30
South Korea moves to discipline agency heads over unchanged passwords and ignored flaws
South Korea plans to discipline public-agency heads for basic cyber lapses after 247 public-sector breaches since 2021 led to no head being disciplined. The penalties are headed into the rules now, while the staff incentives and the security budget are still being worked out.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives50
- Confidence55
Seoul puts a three-year floor under sentences for leaking state secrets to any foreign entity
South Korea's revised Criminal Act took effect on September 13 and drops the requirement that a leak benefit an enemy state, so conduct police logged a record 33 times last year now carries three to 30 years.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives35
- Confidence42
Encrypted, then readable: Korea's startup platform shipped the key inside the API
Records for about 5,000 applicants were encrypted and still exposed, because the key travelled in the API response. The warning about that API arrived a month early.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives82
- Confidence48
Korea doubles its tech-leak squads: 79 officers, and a bigger compliance problem for R&D sites
The National Police Agency is reassigning 79 officers into overseas-leak units and doubling the dedicated teams in Seoul and southern Gyeonggi. Insiders were the source in 60 of 68 cases through July.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption47
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives62
- Confidence55