25.04.22.Today News : Doctor in ‘Rolls-Royce Man’ Gets 16-Year Sentence for Drug and Sex Crimes / SKT Hacked: Customer Info Leaked
1. Doctor in ‘Rolls-Royce Man’ Gets 16-Year Sentence for Drug and Sex Crimes
The court has confirmed a 16-year prison sentence for a doctor who illegally prescribed narcotics to the driver involved in the “Rolls-Royce incident” and raped unconscious female patients.
The Supreme Court's Third Division upheld the original verdict from April 3, sentencing Dr. Yeom to 16 years in prison and a fine of 5 million KRW for violating the Narcotics Control Act and committing quasi-rape. Yeom was prosecuted for prescribing or administering various drugs such as propofol, midazolam, and ketamine, without medical justification, to Mr. Shin—the driver in the 2023 Rolls-Royce incident who fatally hit a pedestrian while under the influence of drugs.
He was also accused of raping more than ten unconscious female patients and illegally filming them multiple times between January 2022 and October 2023.
In the first trial, Yeom was sentenced to 17 years in prison and fined 5 million KRW. He was also ordered to undergo probation, prohibited from working at institutions related to children and adolescents for five years, and had to forfeit 7.92 million KRW. However, the court denied the prosecution's request to attach an electronic monitoring device.
The appellate court reduced the sentence by one year, considering Yeom’s acknowledgment of his crimes and his deposit of a substantial settlement amount. The judge stated, “The social harm is severe, and a heavy sentence is inevitable,” but added, “Since he admitted all charges and has no prior felony convictions, and made considerable compensation to the victims, we sentence him to 16 years.”
The Supreme Court found no error in the previous rulings and dismissed the appeal, finalizing the sentence.
Mr. Shin, the Rolls-Royce driver, was sentenced to 20 years in the first trial, but the sentence was halved to 10 years in the second trial. The Supreme Court upheld the 10-year sentence in October last year.
One-line summary : Doctor Yeom, who illegally prescribed drugs and raped unconscious female patients, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.
2. SKT Hacked: Customer Info Leaked
Following a similar case at LG Uplus two years ago, SK Telecom has now suffered a hacking attack resulting in the leakage of customer data, causing alarm throughout the telecom industry over cybersecurity.
On the 22nd, SK Telecom announced that it confirmed signs of information leakage, including data from USIM (Universal Subscriber Identity Module) cards, due to a malicious code attack by hackers around 11 p.m. on the 19th.
USIM cards store information used to identify and authenticate individuals on a telecom network. If such data is stolen, it can be used to create counterfeit USIM chips, impersonate individuals, or intercept text messages (SMS), which can be exploited for criminal purposes.
SK Telecom emphasized that “the likelihood of damage is extremely low,” explaining that they have been conducting a full inspection of their systems, strengthening blocks on illegal USIM device changes and abnormal authentication attempts, and promptly suspending services when any suspicious signs are detected. The company also said that “no secondary damage or distribution on the dark web has been confirmed so far.”
This is the first major case of personal data leakage due to hacking at a telecom company since January 2023, when LG Uplus suffered a breach of approximately 300,000 customer records, which were later traded on illegal sites. The leaked data included 26 types of personal information such as phone numbers, names, addresses, birthdates, email addresses, IDs, and USIM serial numbers.
Some speculate that the recent SKT attack could be linked to North Korea, given that the target was a telecom company with high-level cybersecurity. With the advancement of AI technologies making hacking attempts more sophisticated, concerns are growing about vulnerabilities in domestic companies' security systems.
The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) stated on the 21st that they have requested preservation and submission of related data and dispatched experts to the site for technical support. They also formed an emergency response team led by the Director of Information Security Policy and plan to establish a joint public-private investigation team if necessary to conduct an in-depth analysis and develop measures to prevent recurrence.