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Golf Zone, whose personal information of 2.21 million people was stolen through hacking, was fined 7.5 billion won. The Personal Information Protection Committee held its 8th general meeting on the 8th and announced on the 9th that it imposed a fine of 7.54 billion won and a fine of 5.4 million won on Golf Zone for violating personal information protection laws and passed a corrective order and public announcement order. . Golfzon suffered a ransomware attack from hackers in November last year. In this process, the hacker stole the virtual private network account information of Golf Zone employees and remotely accessed the file server within the business network. Then, the files stored on the file server were leaked and released on the dark web. As a result, personal information such as names, phone numbers, emails, dates of birth, and IDs of more than 2.21 million service users and executives and employees stored on file servers within the business network were leaked. In some cases, ...