Interpol Issues Purple Notice for 'Technology Leakage' Suspect...World's First Case

On the 24th, the National Police Agency announced that it has issued an Interpol Purple Notice for suspects who recently leaked core technologies of domestic companies, and shared it with Interpol's 195 member countries.

The Purple Notice is one of the eight types of notices issued by Interpol, aimed at sharing new crime methods among member countries to prevent similar transnational crimes. This is the world's first case of an Interpol Purple Notice being issued for a technology leakage crime.

Among the approximately 1,240 Purple Notices issued since 2011, 18 were requested and issued by South Korea, including 8 for drugs, 3 for phone fraud, 3 for maritime kidnapping, 1 for special theft, 1 for firearm manufacturing, 1 for illegal immigration, and 1 for cultural property smuggling.

This time, a notice was issued for suspects involved in an incident where a subcontractor of a major domestic display company concealed and attempted to leak national core technology. Typically, before a company sells equipment to overseas firms, all process information such as log files within the equipment is deleted to prevent technology leakage. However, the suspects exploited the fact that files within the operating system's system folder are not deleted, hiding the technology in that folder to attempt the leak.

A National Police Agency official stated, "We will continue to fully mobilize the capabilities held by the police, including Interpol, police attach?s, and online reporting centers, to strictly respond to overseas technology leakage crimes."

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