TheNextWeb: Korea’s reliance on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser and ActiveX software is being blamed for enabling a spate of hacks that have compromised more than 100 million user records from the country over the past five years.
Operator KT suffered a breach that endangered the records of nearly 9 million customers last year, while online games firm Nexon had more than 13 million user records compromised in 2011. The largest breach in recent times came from SK, the firm behind Facebook-forerunner Cyworld, which is estimated to have had 35 million records nabbed in 2011.
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If they didn't understand that until now, they deserved to be hacked.
Oh, Korea, I pitty you. I mean, IE? Siriously?