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Gov't to inspect 172 private IT sites after hacking spree

South Korea's government is launching large-scale security vulnerability inspections on roughly 170 to 172 key private-sector IT infrastructures, following recent personal data leaks and cyberattacks on financial and public institutions. The Ministry of Science and ICT will check about 172 facilities managed by 111 organizations, including wired and wireless services from SK Telecom, KT, and LG Uplus, as well as internet data center systems, focusing on servers and web assets exposed to the external internet. Yonhap and the Korea Times report the move as a direct response to back-to-back breaches at public institutions. Korean media coverage is largely factual and technical, framing the inspections as a necessary emergency measure; there is no prominent public debate or criticism in the supplied documents, with attention centered on the scope and targets of the checks.

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